The Alicante City Space of the University of Alicante (Ramón y Cajal, 4) opens on Thursday, January 12, a new film cycle whose main theme is cinema with Spanish women writers. they are holding the camera. coordinating Jacqueline Cruz (PhD in Philology, specializing in cinema and literature written by women), this cycle seeks to give visibility also writers because despite their recent success, they are far from reaching equality.
Three films make up the program of this cycle: garden of my prison (2008) Belen Macias; return to Hansala (2008) Chus Gutierrez; Y A boyfriend for Yasmina (2008) Irene Cardona. The three films share the treatment of various symptoms. “Otherness”specify modifiers: in the first case, female prisoners from different ethnic and social backgrounds; in the other two, Moroccan immigrant womenalbeit from very different approaches.
program
January 12 at 18:00 Women’s prison drama.
summary: It is the story of a group of prisoners from different ethnic and social backgrounds, convicted of different crimes, and the sometimes fraternal and sometimes conflictual relations between them. The arrival of a new prison officer and the establishment of a theater group in the prison will open new horizons for them.
(re)knowledge of immigration, racism and otherness
summary: It tells the story of Martín, an undertaker who exploits the wreckage of a boat in which eight immigrants died, to save his job, and Leila, the sister of one of the deceased. Martín and Leila will travel to the Moroccan village where the deceased came from to return the body of Leila’s brother to their country and try to find more families, and this trip will cause a radical change in the former person’s approach to people and work.
26 January at 18:00 Moroccan female migration in the key of a romantic comedy.
summary: Yasmina is a young Moroccan woman who came to Spain to continue her university education. He lives with his brother Abdel in a town in Extremadura, works in a grocery store and actively cooperates with an association that welcomes immigrants. She has to marry a Spanish national to continue her education, and her friends try to find her another “boyfriend” when Javi, the municipal police officer she’s in a relationship with, refuses to do so.