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Marea verde
Marea Verde es un documental que recorre la historia del uso de Misoprostol y la historia del aborto en la Argentina, visibilizando la lucha feminista que desde más de 20 años exigen a un Estado esquivo y sin respuestas a una problemática social que diariamente deja como saldos mujeres muertas en abortos clandestinos. Pasando por relatos en primera persona, marchas, noticias, vigilias y discusiones políticas hasta lograr el aborto legal en Argentina. (Proimágenes Colombia)Tags Feminism / Feminismo -
Señorita Extraviada
Señorita Extraviada (Missing Young Woman) unfolds like the unsolved mystery that it examines—the kidnapping, rape and murder of over 350 young women in Juárez, Mexico. Visually poetic, yet unflinching in its gaze, this haunting documentary unravels the layers of complicity that have allowed these brutal murders to continue just south of the US-Mexican border. Relying on what Portillo comes to see as the most reliable of sources—the testimonies of the families of the victims—Señorita Extraviada documents a two-year search for the truth in the underbelly of the new global economy. The result is a shocking and brutal portrait of Ciudad Juárez, "The City of the Future." (Official Website: lourdesportillo.com)Tags Feminism / Feminismo -
La rebelión de las oaxaqueñas
El conflicto actual en Oaxaca comenzó el 14 de junio de 2006 cuando el gobernador del estado ordenó a la policía desalojar el plantón magisterial instalado en el zócalo de la ciudad. Las acciones de ese día desataron la rebelión, conformando la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca. Miles de mujeres se involucraron en la lucha y su activismo adoptó diversas formas, incluyendo la instalación y sostenimiento de barricadas por toda la ciudad. Este documental narra la historia de estas mujeres, quienes a partir de distintas realidades se unieron en una sola lucha. (Sistema de Información Cultural, México) -
Tempestad
Un "roadtrip" a lo largo del país que busca ofrecer un retrato de la vida en México, da voz a dos mujeres que paralelamente narran sus historias en las que la violencia se apoderó de sus vidas. Miriam, acusada injustanente por delincuencia organizada y tráfico de personas, es detenida y encerrada en una prisión en Matamoros de características únicas, con un "autogobierno" ejercido por un cártel de la droga que se dedica a extorsionar a los familiares de los detenidos. Adela, un payaso de circo, busca a su hija secuestrada y desaparecida hace 12 años. Ambas se enfrentan a la corrupción y a la complicidad de la policía. El documental aborda las ruinas, los desechos y las cicatrices que deja en el paisaje y en las personas la tormenta de la violencia que actualmente abate a México. (Filmoteca UNAM)Tags Feminism / Feminismo -
Ema
Ema, una joven bailarina, decide separarse de Gastón luego de entregar a Polo en adopción, el hijo que ambos habían adoptado y que fueron incapaces de criar. Desesperada por las calles del puerto de Valparaíso, Ema busca nuevos amores para aplacar la culpa. Sin embargo, ese no es su único objetivo, también tiene un plan secreto para recuperarlo todo. (Film Affinity ES)Tags Feminism / Feminismo -
El despertar de las hormigas
Isa es modista y vive con su familia en un pequeño pueblo de Costa Rica. Su esposo Alcides desea que tengan un tercer hijo: un varón. Isa, sin embargo, no quiere otro embarazo. Quiere enfocarse en el trabajo y ya tiene más que suficiente en su vida con dos hijas. Hasta ahora, nunca ha cuestionado su papel dentro de la familia. Sin embargo, cuando se da cuenta de que Alcides no parece estar escuchando y persiste con su deseo de tener un tercer hijo, se da cuenta de que algo debe cambiar. (Film Affinity ES)Tags Feminism / Feminismo -
Frida, naturaleza viva
The most prominent female painter of Latin America, Frida Kahlo, is agonizing in her Coyoacán home. She evokes memories of her childhood, of the streetcar accident that caused her to terrible pain and affliction, her friendship with Trotsky and painter Alfaro Siquieros, her marriage to Diego Rivera, her miscarriage, her political commitment, her long affairs and the anticipated exhibition of her works. (IMDB)Tags Feminism / Feminismo -
Doña Bárbara
En Venezuela, el abogado Santos Luzardo arriba a los llanos para hacerse cargo de sus tierras, entrando en un terrible conflicto con la terrateniente doña Bárbara, una bravía mujer a quien el destino la ha convertido en una devoradora de hombres, que tiene pacto con el Maligno y es dueña de vidas y haciendas. Esta adaptación fílmica de la clásica novela de Rómulo Gallegos es considerada como uno de los más depurados ejemplos de la calidad de producción que el cine mexicano alcanzó durante su "época de oro". (Cineteca Nacional México)Tags Feminism / Feminismo -
7 semanas
Inspirada en hechos reales, y protagonizada por Paulina Moreno, Camilo Carmona y Luz Croxatto, el largometraje cuenta la historia de Camila, una joven estudiante de danza, que queda embarazada de su novio Simón. La noticia se esparce vertiginosamente, ilusionando a todos con la llegada de un bebé, pero Camila no está segura de ser madre, por lo que deberá enfrentarse a una compleja decisión. (Culturiz Arte)Tags Feminism / Feminismo -
Chega de fiu fiu
Were the cities made for women? While the #MeToo Movement united sexual harassment victims throughout the world, this crucial documentary goes beyond and explicitly illustrates how the participation of women in open urban spaces is marked by insecurity. The film explores the public space as a place of violence—especially sexual harassment—and analyzes how campaigns promoted by activists and feminists have changed power relationships between men and women in the streets and on the Internet in Brazil. Enough With Catcalling follows Raquel, Rosa, and Teresa, in three different Brazilian cities, who share with us their experiences with catcalling. The film also includes insightful footage from hidden cameras worn by women in their day to day life, as well as eye-opening conversations between specialists and men about harassment, body image, and masculinity. (Pragda)Tags Feminism / Feminismo -
Que horas ela volta?
Que horas ela volta? tells the story of Val, a woman from the Northeastern region of Brazil who works as a live-in maid for a well-to-do São Paulo family. At first, as a very brief scene in the beginning of the film indicates, she worked as a nanny for the family's only child, Fabinho (Michel Joelsas), now a late teen, and for that reason she still has very strong quasi-maternal ties with him. She and her employer, Barbara (Karina Teles), appear to have a warm, friendly, relationship until the arrival of Jéssica (Camila Márdila), Val's daughter, who comes to São Paulo in order to prepare for a university entrance examination ("vestibular") at the School of Architecture. Having been raised unaware of her mother's actual situation, and not having seen her mother for over 10 years, Jéssica finds herself, unexpectedly, living temporarily at the house of Val's employers. She is a self-assured young woman who does not understand her mother's social resignation. With time, her presence at the house creates all kinds of problems: Barbara is driven to distraction and Carlos (Lourenço Mutarelli), Barbara's husband (who is responsible for the family's fortune), becomes so infatuated with Jéssica that he ends up proposing to her. The film has a happy, light-comedy ending: Jessica obtains much better results than Fabinho in the university examination, and Val quits her job and rents a house with her daughter in order to help the latter look after her own son, whose existence is revealed only towards the end of the film. (Source: Sá, Lúcia. “Intimacy at Work: Servant and Employer Relations in Que Horas Ela Volta? (The Second Mother).” Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies, vol. 24, no. 3, Dec. 2018, pp. 311–327.)Tags Feminism / Feminismo -
Las herederas
Marcelo Martinessi's film is an autumnal study of a reclusive Paraguayan woman in her 60s who takes tentative steps to reconnect with the world after the companion who has long overseen her affairs goes off to prison. A restrained, stately character study with a deep emotional core, The Heiresses showcases a remarkable performance from Ana Brun as shy, reserved Chela, who has lived in the same Asunción house ever since she was the pampered child of a well-to-do family, sharing it for years with her lover Chiquita (Margarita Irun). Chiquita has taken responsibility for all practical matters, including the sale of many of Chela's prized family belongings to keep them afloat, but when Chiquita goes to jail for fraud--where she makes new friends--Chela must fend for herself. Taking her father's old Mercedes out of the garage to visit Chiquita, Chela is approached by an elderly neighbor for a ride, and soon becomes a professional driver for rich old ladies, learning from them--and a brassy younger woman named Angy (Ana Ivanova)--how to become more self-reliant. By the time Chiquita returns, she finds that the house is a much changed place. A subtle tale of female liberation with a nuanced central performance. Source: Swietek, F. "The Heiresses." Video Librarian, vol. 34, no. 4, 2019, p. 20.Tags Feminism / Feminismo -
A Crushing Love
A CRUSHING LOVE, Sylvia Morales’ sequel to her groundbreaking history of Chicana women, CHICANA (1979), honors the achievements of five activist Latinas—labor organizer/farm worker leader Dolores Huerta, author/educator Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez, writer/playwright/educator Cherrie Moraga, civil rights advocate Alicia Escalante, and historian/writer Martha Cotera - and considers how these single mothers managed to be parents and effect broad-based social change at the same time. (https://www.wmm.com/)Tags Feminism / Feminismo