A film festival in Bangkok next week will be dedicated to the works of five female Spanish filmmakers.
The Spanish Film Festival is coming back to the capital next for five days and five contemporary Spanish-language films– all directed by women.
The event will open at 7pm on Monday with the deeply moving 2021 drama Maixabel, directed by Icíar Bollain. It is based on the true story of Maixabel Lasa, a woman whose husband was killed by Basque separatist group ETA, and 11 years later receives an invitation to meet his killers.
Another acclaimed film is Verano 1993, a Catalan-language autobiographical film by Carla Simon that examines the AIDS crisis of the 1990s through a 6-year-old orphan. It won an award at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
Sharing much social background with Verano 1993 is coming-of-age drama Las Ninas, in which an 11-year-old girl in a strict convent school meets a new classmate who pushes her toward a new stage in life.
Cinephiles can also expect to see a promising LGBTQ+ film, Carmen y Lola, which chronicles an unexpected romance between two teen girls living in Spain’s deeply traditional gypsy community.
Lastly, Libertad touches on everyday inequality and class by following the friendship between Nora, a wealthy privileged girl, and Libertad, a daughter of a Colombian caretaker.
The movies will be screened in the original Spanish, with English and Thai subtitles available. They will show Monday through Oct. 21 at House Samyan, an independent cinema inside Samyan Mitrtown.
More details are available here.
Hosted by the Spanish embassy in Bangkok, the Spanish Film Festival debuted only last year, with a program highlighting critically acclaimed films by famed Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar.
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