The transfer of festivals to the video-on-demand platform Filmin continues for the moment. This week, after the success of the DA' and the DocsBarcelona, we have at our disposal, not one, but two festivals or samples. The first of these proposals is the Dones International Film Show Barcelona which will take place until Sunday 14 of June. The program has a feature film section, another short, a small sample of children's films and two tributes, all of it, as is obvious, led by women. In the feature film section we find eight documentary pieces. Start the length selection with My name is Bagda second feature by Brazilian Caru Alves de Souza that tells us the history of Bagdá, a girl who lives surrounded by women and very close to her skate, basis of his rebellion and his personality. This tape is followed by (order is the least important thing in the case of festivals online, but to put one) In the name of Scheherazade or the first beergarden in Tehran by Narges Kalhor, curious transformation of the stories of Arabian Nights, o The archivettes by American Megan Rossman, that tells us the story of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the largest archive of materials on the lesbian environment in the world.
The cancer journals revisited by Lana Lin presents us with a dramatized reading of The cancer diaries by Audre Lorde, while in Queen Lear, Pelin Esmer tells us about a theater group formed by several peasant women in the mountains of southern Türkiye and Queer genius by Catherine Pancake reveals six decades of activism queer around the figure of the filmmaker Barbara Hammer. They close the proposal Girl mom by Andrea Testa, that addresses the issue of youth maternity in a public hospital in Argentina and For your sake de Ronja There, which tells us about the social changes that are taking place in Nepal in the environment of women and how this affects the family institution. The tribute to the science fiction writer Ursula K stands out. Le Guin what the documentary implies The worlds of Ursula K. Guinthe Arwen Curry, the curious animated film Marona's lives by Anca Damian, recently released in commercial theaters and which stands out for its very interesting animation work, as well as the tribute to the Colombian director Marta Rodríguez with five pieces that reflect her interest in the peasant and indigenous world of her country..
In another vein, he German Film Festival [5-11/6] that this year also goes to the network of networks, offers, as usual, a sample of the best of contemporary German cinema. We find here eight feature films, a youth section with three works and a program with thirteen short film pieces. We start with a free country by Christian Alvart, remake german spanish tape The minimum island by Alberto Rodríguez Librero, with the cultural curiosity that involves the plot and sociological transfer of the same plot from one country to another. In a free country The police go from the conflicts that the Spanish political Transition entailed to the German reunification. Interesting.
In The space between the lines, Vanessa Jopp takes us to You have an email by Nora Ephron in a relationship maintained by email between its two protagonists, while Coup de Sven O. Hill draws on a real case to narrate a thriller about a cyber heist of a bank employee in the years 80, y in the fire by Daphne Charizani takes us back to the Iraq war in which a female soldier searches for her sister, excuse for an exploration of Kurdish society. Science fiction has its part in my end, your beginning by Mariko Minoguchi in whose debut she builds a love story based on a already seenafter the death of the man she thinks she loves. The documentary is represented by three pieces, Lost in face Valentin Riedl, which tells the story of Carlotta, a fifty-year-old woman who suffers from face blindness, a curious disease that prevents him from remembering faces, even his own; Schlingensief, a voice breaking the silence by Bettina Böhler, about the figure of the filmmaker and artist Christoph Schlingensief and You say art as you can say it by Sabine Herpich, that tells us about the value and role of art for the disabled. GERARDO LEON
