During intense five days, the Film Festival Women made an interesting look at the work of directors and female subjects.
The story of Hypatia, a brilliant astronomer who was persecuted in the late V in Egypt, as recounted in "Agora" by Alejandro Amenabar, mark the starting point the first version of Women's Film Festival , which runs until next Sunday at various cultural centers in the capital.
Amenábar's film, which dates from 2009, but only this years will be released in Chile, reflects the story of a woman harassed for their beliefs and discriminated against for being a woman in a private intellectual world of men. Something that happened hundreds of years ago, but still has parallels with what happens in society today.
be presented shortly before the Mexican documentary "The Devil Never Sleeps," will be the film's English-Chilean director which officially raise the curtain on the festival, at 20 : 30 hours at Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral.
festival have a wide variety of themes and authors, as the exhibition dedicated to Douglas Sirk in the National Film and a retrospective of Iranian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf Alameda Art Center. The other sites involved are Lastarria 90, the Cultural Center of Spain and the Institute of Communication and Image, University of Chile.
The event will also interned at Lourdes Portillo's work concerning Latin American documentary cinema, contemporary films as well as Chilean director, the exhibition "Women in the World" with films of several authors of worldwide, a special focus on the Argentine female cinema, an exhibition that reviews issues related to women in Africa and a whole section with premieres of Chilean films directed by women.
Source: The Second
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