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Teatro Alameda
Calle Crédito, 13
41002 – Sevilla
T. +(34) 955 473 190
[email protected]
www.festivalcinesevilla.eu
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SEFF responds with ‘Yo NO soy esa’
to the institutionalised image of women in the cinema
12 female gazes make up this season with which the Seville European Film Festival
spotlights the great variety in female consciousness
In connection with ‘Yo NO soy esa', a fanzine has been edited, retrospectives have been
dedicated to Vivienne Dick and Kurdwin Ayub, and there is an animation season
of ‘Anti-chic Flicks’
The 70 women directors programmed by the festival include Tizza Covi, Ralitza Petrova,
Andrea Arnold, Federica Di Giacomo, Axelle Ropert, Anka Sasnal, Caroline Deruas,
Rita Azevedo and Marie Losier
Sevilla, October 18, 2016.- Within the Seville
European Film Festival “Yo NO soy esa” is a
selection of 12 films by 12 women directors
who want to raise awareness and leave
behind gender standards and roles, and
breathe the freedom beyond labels,
highlighting the conflict between reality and
the representation of women in the cinema.
The main thematic axis of this edition of SEFF
is dedicated to the expression of those
women who don’t want to be what the
traditional script had thought of for them. It is
necessary to give a leading role, within the
festival programming, to a series of titles that
offer stories in which the woman is not a
partner, not a mother, not young, not
beautiful or not obedient. Humour,
transgression and the punk spirit are key tools
here in this search for alternatives to the
paradigm.
The season “Yo NO soy esa”, which covers almost six decades of cinema, groups together in
eight thematic sessions -Hablemos de Sexo, Riot Grrrls, Era Feliz en su Matrimonio, Madre solo
Hay Una, Más Mala que un Dolor, Cuestión de Género, Girl-Friends or Que no nos Representanworks by filmmakers such as Julie Verhoeven, Catherine Breillat, Lucy Thane, Ingibjörg
Birgisdóttir, Orri Jonsson, Kristín Björ, Cecilia Bartolomé, Maureen Fazendeiro, Laura Mulvey
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Teatro Alameda
Calle Crédito, 13
41002 – Sevilla
T. +(34) 955 473 190
[email protected]
www.festivalcinesevilla.eu
and Peter Wollen, María Cañas, Ulrike
Ottinger, Marie Losier, Vera Chytilova or
Delphine Seyrig.
In connection with this season a retrospective
will be devoted to the directors Vivienne Dick,
whose work has been described as “the
quintessence of No Wave cinema”, and
Kurdwin Ayub, of Iraki origin, who belongs to
the youtuber generation. Of the former, 12
short and medium length films will be shown
over the course of three sessions: Aliens,
Conversations/Impressions and The Mother
and the Whore. As for the young Ayub, we will
screen 8 of her short films, including Summer
Holiday (Vaginale VII) and Adele 1.
Finally, the special session Anti-chick flicks will
show the exact opposite to what romantic
comedies and melodramas preach. It will
open fire from animation at a whole collection
of clichés about what it is supposed that girls
like or the ideals to which they aspire. The titles that can be seen include Una Mujer Educada
(María Chalela-Puccini), The Women & Earth Series (Rosanna Wan) or Pussy (Renata
Gasiorowska).
“Yo NO soy esa” is also a fanzine, a collection of stories, illustrations and comics signed by
artists such as María Cañas, Elisa Victoria, Joaquín León, Elena Orellana (Madre Imperfecta),
Marta Caballero, Gloria Romero (Rapariga Amarguinha), Ana Jiménez (La Topa Tabernaria),
Marta Altieri, Nieves González (N.G. Snowjane, from Las Janes). Among the collaborations from
outside Seville, Gloria Vilches, Xiana Gómez Díaz, Helena Exquis, Andrea Galaxina and Mari
Marín (lamarimorena) have participated in the fanzine.
Great women directors in other SEFF sections
This important theme for reflection will have its response in all the SEFF sections. In 2016, the
festival will screen around 70 films directed by women. In the Official Section, in competition,
Tizza Covi, along with Rainer Frimmel, directs Mr. Universo, Special Mention by the Jury at
Locarno; the Bulgarian director Ralitza Petrova presents her first film, Godless, winner of the
Golden Leopard at Locarno; the Oscar winner Andrea Arnold, presents American Honey; and
out of competition we have Federica Di Giacomo with Liberami, winner of the Horizons Award
at Venice; and Axelle Ropert who, after competing in the Official Section at Locarno, is
presenting her third feature film in Seville, La Prunelle de Mes Yeux.
Among the fiction films in Nuevas Olas we have The Sun, the Sun Blinded Me, the third film
which Anka Sasnal has co-directed with her brother Wilhelm; and Daydreams (L’indomptée) by
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Teatro Alameda
Calle Crédito, 13
41002 – Sevilla
T. +(34) 955 473 190
[email protected]
www.festivalcinesevilla.eu
Caroline Deruas, the film which has been selected by the Young Programmers at SEFF 2016, as
part of the Moving Cinema programme. In Nuevas Olas/No Ficción, Rita Azevedo comes back to
SEFF with Correspondecias. And out of competition Marie Losier presents the experimental
short film O Passaro da Noite.
Link to the films’ trailers
Download of Yo NO Soy Esa press materials
Download of Great women directors at SEFF press materials
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