The films featured in the 33rd Barcelona International Women's Films Festival (MIFDB) champion cinema as a language through which to explain the world beyond the abyss.

This year's programme includes stories of the past, present and future that break all narrative pacts and defy the narrowness of the patriarchal imagination. Together we will ask ourselves: what re-readings do we collectively write? Through rhizomatic visual archives, queer bricolage works and the practice of filming as an act of empathy, the directors of these films will be preparing possible answers to this question.

Programme Volume I:

• From 22 to 31 May: Filmic Persistence. At the Filmoteca de Catalunya
• 23 May to 25 June: Sarah Maldoror Retrospective. At the Filmoteca de Catalunya
• 24 and 25 May Family Sessions. At the Filmoteca de Catalunya
• 1 June to 2 July: Cinema out of place. In different spaces in Barcelona.
• 28 May to 10 June: Special sessions. With the collaboration of Candy Darling, Santa Mònica and Zumzeig Cinecooperativa

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