{"id":96757,"date":"2018-09-16T02:59:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T00:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=96757"},"modified":"2020-01-15T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:33:28","slug":"the-2018-womens-film-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/the-2018-womens-film-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2018 Women’s Film Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historically, talented women are frequently left behind and forgotten despite their many accomplishments and contributions to society. In this new era of the revolution and recognition of female talent in male-dominated industries, the <\/span>Ayuntamiento de Barcelona <\/b>has put forward a female film series as a collaboration with the feminist movement that is stronger than ever before. Today from <\/span>ShBarcelona<\/b><\/a> we want to talk about the <\/span>Women\u2019s Film Series <\/b>that began this year, where you\u2019re just in time to see the last two titles that are left to screen. <\/span><\/p>\n

Related article:<\/span><\/i> Where to watch movies in English in Barcelona <\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Recognizing women through film<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Photo by Coolhuntparis via Visualhunt<\/p><\/div>\n

This year, the <\/span>Ayuntamiento de Barcelona<\/b><\/a> decided to project a <\/span>film<\/b><\/a> series in which women are the principal protagonists. The initiative has come in a time of feminist vindication, in which women have raised their voices on various levels of society, especially those where their participation has been limited in the past. The film series began with its first showing on <\/span>May 18 <\/b>with the thought-provoking film <\/span>Hidden Figures<\/i><\/b>, or <\/span>Figuras Ocultas<\/span><\/i> in Spanish. The film highlights the important contributions of three intelligent and skilled African-American women, whose work at NASA was overlooked by American society in the sixties due to their gender and race.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On <\/span>May 31<\/b>, the series featured the film\u00a0<\/span>In<\/i><\/b> Between<\/i><\/b> (titled <\/span>Bar Bahar, entre dos mundos <\/i><\/b>in Spanish), <\/span>a story of three resident Palestinian women in Tel-Aviv fighting for a normal life as young people in a culture and territory where it\u2019s difficult to find your own place. The next film chosen was <\/span>Wadjda<\/i><\/b>, or <\/span>La bicicleta verde <\/span><\/i>in Spanish. The first film to be written and directed by a women from Saudi Arabia, it reflects the complex world inhabited by women in the Middle East. It features a Saudi girl who doesn\u2019t give up when she is forbidden to own a bicycle as a girl, showing the ordeal that seemingly simple things can be for many girls and women in Saudi Arabia.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo via Pixabay<\/p><\/div>\n

The two <\/span>screenings<\/b><\/a> that remain will take place on<\/span> September 30<\/b> and <\/span>October 7<\/b>. The first will be the film <\/span>Maudie<\/i><\/b> (titled <\/span>Maudie, el color de la vida <\/span><\/i>in Spanish). A story about love and a series of beautiful paintings by a self-taught artist that have become famous, these two threads guide the film based on the true story of a Canadian painter who is known as one of the best folk artists in Canada. The <\/span>showing<\/b><\/a> will take place at <\/span>9:30 p.m. <\/b>at <\/span>Joan Pelegr\u00ed<\/b> plaza<\/b>, as part of the scheduled events for the celebration of <\/span>Hostafrancs<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Related article:<\/span><\/i> Film festivals in Barcelona<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

The final screening in the <\/span>film<\/b><\/a> series<\/span> will take place at <\/span>Comas Plaza <\/b>at <\/span>9:00 p.m.<\/b> in collaboration with the <\/span>Taula de Dones <\/span><\/i>(Women\u2019s Table) in the <\/span>Les Corts<\/b> district. The Chilean film <\/span>Rara <\/i><\/b>puts forward a reflective story of the dilemma faced by lesbian women at bringing their families forward into the judgement of society. In this film about two daughters whose mother decides to spend her life with another woman, this conflict is only felt when their family\u2019s situation collides with the reservations of others in society.<\/span><\/p>\n

Are you excited to see the remaining films in this year\u2019s Women\u2019s Film Series?<\/b><\/p>\n

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Historically, talented women are frequently left behind and forgotten despite their many accomplishments and contributions to society. In this new era of the revolution and recognition of female talent in male-dominated industries, the Ayuntamiento de Barcelona has put forward a female film series as a collaboration with the feminist movement that is stronger than ever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":96758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[532],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96757"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101759,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96757\/revisions\/101759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}