FROM THURSDAY 30/3 ON FRIDAY 14/4
THE FILMTECA. Pl. town hall, 17
He Valencian Institute of Culture and the VAT present in The Film Library valencian, The cycle Domestic workers on screen, which is celebrated on the occasion of the exhibition in a house. Genealogy of housework and cures, curated by the illustrator and drawing Ana Penyas and the anthropologist and social researcher Alba Herrero, which can be seen at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art until next 23 of April.
Consisting of five films, the cycle addresses, from different perspectives, the reality of domestic workers and cures in different times and contexts. The cycle starts on Thursday 30/3, at 8 pm. With the projection, in single session, from the french documentary If you go to Paris (2013), directed by Jacquie Chavance and Guillaume Mazeline, with the collaboration of Bruno Tur. The screening will have a presentation and subsequent discussion by Bruno Tur himself., movie screenwriter, and the curators of the exhibition, Ana Penyas and Alba Herrero. In the early sixties, in the middle of Franco's regime, Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards emigrated to European countries, mainly in France, Germany and Switzerland. Many were women who left their villages for the first time and went to Paris to work as domestic workers.. The documentary If you go to Paris tells the story of a group of seven women from Polinyà de Xúquer who emigrated to Paris in the sixties to work as domestic workers.
On Friday 31/3, at 8 p.m., the Valencian Film Library screens the German documentary Room without a view (2021), directed by the Catalan filmmaker, established in Berlin, Roser Corella. The screening will have a presentation and subsequent discussion by Corella and the curators of the exhibition. At home, Ana Penyas and Alba Herrero. Room without a view is a documentary that analyzes the harsh reality of foreign domestic workers who work in Middle Eastern countries.. Combining a multiplicity of points of view, offers an intimate look into the lives of entrepreneurs, intermediary agents and employees. It is a film about a form of contemporary slavery that reflects on the role of women and domestic work in capitalist societies..
on Wednesday 5/4, at 6 p.m.. and on thursday 6/4, at 8:30 p.m.. the Valencian Film Archive projects a second mother (What time will he return??, 2015), written and directed by Brazilian director Anna Muylaert. The film stars Vale, a live-in maid who works for a wealthy couple from São Paulo and who takes care of their teenage son, whom he has raised since childhood and with whom he has a very special relationship. The order of this home seems indestructible, until one day comes, from your hometown, Vale's ambitious daughter, Jessica, whom he had left in the care of relatives in northern Brazil thirteen years before.
on Wednesday 12/4, at 6 p.m., and on friday 14/4, a las 20.15h. the Valencian Film Archive projects, in the same session, two films by the Catalan director Clara Roquet: the short film 15 minutes The goodbye (2015) y Freedom (2021). Golden Spike for best short film at the Seminci in Valladolid and best short film at the Gaudí Awards in 2015, The goodbye tells the story of a Bolivian domestic worker who tries to fulfill her wife's last wishes.. Winner of two Goya Awards (best new director and best supporting actress for Nuera Navas) and four Gaudí Awards, Freedom It was selected in the Cannes Critics' Week and inaugurated the Valladolid International Film Week.. After a long time without meeting at their summer house, The Vidal family spends their last vacation with their grandmother Ángela. For the first time in his life, The teenager Daughter-in-law being that he does not find his place: children's games seem ridiculous to him and adult conversations still seem strange to him. But everything changes with the arrival of a girl a year older than her., daughter of the Colombian woman who takes care of her yaya.
The cycle also includes a conference by Professor Eider de Dios on the representation of domestic workers in cinema., which will be held on Wednesday 19/4, at 7pm. at the Rector Peset Residence Hall. Eider de Dios is the author of the book Maid, employee, domestic worker. Gender, class and identity, Francoism and the transition through domestic service (1939-1995).
