Recognised female directors and the new generation join forces as they do each year at the Grenada festival “Mujeres del cine”. This year, the winner of the Goya for best fictional short, Isabel de Ocampo, will present her short film Miente, and will give a talk on the preparations for her first feature-length film, set in the outlying quarter of Seville known as the “3000 houses”.

During this year’s festival works by some of the most innovative female directors will be shown, including the women’s pornographic film director Erika Lust and the Japanese Naomi Kawase, winner of the Cannes Jury Prize for Mogari no mori (“The Forest of Mourning”). However, the filmmakers honoured at the festival this year have been the Spanish directors Cecilia Bartolome, Helena Taberna and Ines Paris.

Bartolome has been, without a doubt, one of the pioneers of Spanish film of the democratic period, and is the author of titles like the documentary about the transition Despues de... , while Helena Taberna has directed, amongst others, the feature-length films Yoyes and La buena nueva. Ines Paris, for her part, is the president of CIMA, the National Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media, an organisation which will be presented for the first time in Andalusia during the festival.

One of the big novelties of this year’s festival is the creation of a space for a debate on women’s studies, with the aim of encouraging discussion between students from various European universities and the directors participating in the festival.