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SÃO JORGE • 31 OCT | 1 NOV | 2 NOV | 3 NOV
CINEMATECA / GOETHE • 4 NOV | 5 NOV | 6 NOV | 7 NOV
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Sections
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BEYOND THE FILMS
VISUAL ARTES PROGRAMME |||||||
• FRAGMENTS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
EXHIBITIION |||||||
• ILUSTRATORS FOR PEACE IN PALESTINE
ROUND TABLES |||||||
• A VIDA DOS CORPOS
• NO CRUZAMENTO DE MIGRAÇÃO, COLONIZAÇÃO E IMPÉRIO
• MENORES REFUGIADOS E MIGRANTES
• VIOLÊNCIAS DE GÉNERO
• COLONIALISMO/DECOLONIALISMO E AS SUAS REPRESENTAÇÕES
WORKSHOPS |||||||
• GÉNERO, AUTOCONHECIMENTO E EMPATIA
• CANTOS DO MEDITERRÂNEO: VIAGEM AOS SEUS PORTOS
INDUSTRY PROGRAMME |||||||
• AWARENESS WORKSHOP
GENDER STEREOTYPES AND SEXISM IN FILMS
• GENERAMMA APRESENTA CINCO CURTAS ANDALUZAS
• INTRODUCTORY FILM WRITING WORKSHOP
• 2ND MEETING OLHARES DO MEDITERRÂNEO / MUTIM
OLHARES ÍNTIMOS: COMO A COORDENAÇÃO DE INTIMIDADE REDEFINE O CINEMA
BOOKS & LITERATURE |||||||
• BOOKSHOPS AND OTHER TREATS
EVERYDAY REVOLUTIONS
In the year in which Portugal celebrates the 50th anniversary of the April 1974 Democratic Revolution, the theme of Olhares do Mediterrâneo – Women’s Film Festival is “Everyday Revolutions”, to remind us that revolutions happen every day and must be constantly renewed to keep democracy alive and to protect and extend people’s rights.
Everyday revolutions, in contrast to the great historical upheavals, are those that occur within ordinary life, in the intimate space of everyday life, gradually and silently changing the social fabric. They are small transformations, often invisible, that through accumulation transform lives, ways of doing things, mentalities and even political systems. Everyday revolutions are the changes carried out by traditionally silenced groups. Their very lives and work are gestures of invisible resistance that are in themselves a form of revolution.
Through cinema we can see these subtle but powerful ways of bringing about change. By showing representations of ordinary life, often forgotten or ignored, the directors whose work we present at the Festival expose the tensions in society, bringing to the fore what is systematically silenced. The films we screen tell stories that trigger critical reflections on the way we understand the world around us, challenge the traditional way of looking at life, proposing new ways of narrating everyday life, as well as different perspectives on past and present History.
Films made by women from Mediterranean countries have played a fundamental role in representing and analysing everyday revolutions, offering new perspectives on the lives, struggles and resistance that take place within Mediterranean societies, marked by such distinct ways of life and traditions, different social, political and historical tensions.
Making films about family dynamics, domestic work, female genital mutilation, abortion or the daily lives of teenagers is talking about women’s rights and gender inequality. To tell the story of the Algerian woman who revolutionised a musical genre traditionally reserved for men is to reveal an extraordinary life silenced by geography. To narrate the dreams of unaccompanied minor migrants trying to enter Europe is to subvert dominant narratives of rejection. To talk about a woman born on a boat that, in 1884, took emigrants from Madeira to Angola, is to bring an intimate and new look at colonialism. After all, we must never forget that the private is political.
The work of women directors from Mediterranean countries is a testimony to the power of cinema to give visibility to invisible struggles and to transform everyday life into a stage for continuous revolutions. Natália Correia, an epitome of freedom of thought and artistic creativity before and after 25th April, used to say that ‘culture transforms mentalities’. This is exactly what Olhares do Mediterrâneo – Women’s Film Festival aims to be: a cultural space that, by contrasting the processes of invisibilization, silencing, and delegitimization of women in the public sphere, transforms mentalities and, therefore, the world.
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