Saturday, 15 March, 4:00 pm
+ Q&A with directors
Curatorial Statement
by Virginia Viñoles
In the face of resurgent waves of hatred in different parts of the world, resisting together remains urgent and necessary and sharing stories of collective care and tenderness emerge as a way to position ourselves.
This is how Radical Care came about: Stories of women who open up new possibilities against injustice through collective resistance and radical tenderness.
In this selection we will find many interwoven networks, some broader, communal, and extensive, and others more intimate, which, like timid braids, sustain and care for one another, resisting against the dynamics of injustice and generating possibilities for transformation.
The stories, told from the unique perspective of their directors, represent different geographies, ages, and struggles. In them, the fabrics, braids, webs, threads, and hands that hold, emerge as metaphors for intertwined collective resistance.
Through this selection, we invite you to share and imagine stories that, through care and tenderness, reflect new ways of narrating, reinterpreting, and constructing other possible futures through cinema.
SHORT FILMS
Tejedoras / Weavers
Uruguay, 16:20 min
director: Agustina Willat & Ana Micenmacher Singer
In a rural area in northern Uruguay, a group of women are running a knitting business. Raquel, 44, has already raised her eight children and some grandchildren. It has not been easy for her to face her husband’s disapproval and leave the place he and her children expect her to occupy in the home. Raquel and her companions will use their meeting to fight against old structures and empower themselves as freer women, which will also lead them to face the challenge of collective work.
Por Magda / For Magda
Mexico, 15:22 min
director: Carla Larrea Sánchez
Josefina and her daughter Magda take refuge in the Andean mountains to find a way to ensure a free future, despite the fact that this decision could land them in prison.
Weaving Webs
Germany, 11:18 min
director: Marie Caroline Gippert
An experimental approaching the healing processes of two women after having experienced gender-based violence. The protagonists gradually break with destructive dynamics and start weaving from fragmentary memories creating new webs of support. Poetic images and reflective narratives engage in dialogue.
An Ordinary Day
Turkey, 5:25 min
director: Pelin Boga
There are ordinary (!) situations that women+ experience almost every day—at home, at school, at work, on the street, at a bar, on a ferry…Mr. Know-It-All shows up uninvited and starts passionately explaining the right way, the best way, what must be done.
I don’t know you
Chile, 11:04 min
director: Josefa Rozas & Sofia Vargas
As she starts seventh grade, Amelia (12) faces new insecurities about her body and social norms. She realizes that many of her features are not what they “should be.” Desperate to fit in, she begins tearing off parts of her body and hiding them in a drawer, between smudges and cutouts—until she can no longer ignore them, as they transform into a creature, a reflection of everything she let go of herself.
Escamas
Spain, 16:45 min
director: Katherina Harder
Alicia feels uncomfortable in her own body after undergoing a mastectomy due to breast cancer. A domestic accident leads her to meet her new neighbor, Lucía, a transgender woman. Each will find in the other a pillar of support during the difficult process of self-discovery and acceptance.
