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Screening Yuli (available only for users in the UK)

Duration: 104 min / Original voice: Spanish -/Subs: English / Country: Spain – UK – Germany / Year: 2018

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Yuli is the nickname given to Carlos Acosta by his father Pedro. From a young age, Yuli fled any kind of discipline and education; the streets of a run-down neighborhood in Havana was where he learned most of his schooling. But Pedro knows his son has natural talent and forces him to attend Cuba’s National Dance School. Against his will and despite his initial indiscipline, Yuli ends up being captivated by the world of dance, and from childhood he will begin to forge his own legend, as one of the best dancers of his generation, often breaking tabus and becoming the first black artist to dance Romeo in the Royal Ballet in London, where he forged a legendary career as a principal dancer for 17 years.

Short films

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1) La otredad - Derecho de Migrantes

Direction: Lucía Presta

Duration: 3 min / Original voice: Spanish / Subs: English / Country: Arg - Col / Year: 2017

Argentina, 2017. A presidential decree overturns the validity of The Migrant Law which established migration as a Human Right. It is not the only violation that Mauricio Macri’s government will make on the advances of the working-class sectors and of the most vulnerable. The country is going through a crisis which has closed factories, bankrupted businesses, and lead to the loss of hundreds of jobs, as the frightening growth of unemployment increases at the same rate as hunger and poverty.

2) Marielle’s Legacy Will Not Die

Direction: Leonard Cortana

Duration: 24min / Original voice: Portuguese / Subs: English / Country: Brazil / Year: 2019

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 2019, artists and activists used the 2019 Carnival to call for justice for Afro-Brazilian Councilwoman Marielle Franco, excecuted in March 2018 downtown Rio de Janeiro. In the midst of social protest and rising fear over the far-right Government of Jair Bolsonaro, Rio de Janeiro has become an active site of resistance and memorialization of Franco’s legacy where activists invest the city to ask "who ordered Marielle Franco's murder?"

3) Historias Urgentes: Capítulo Resistencia, voz y voto - Nosotras Audiovisuales (15 mins) (v.o SPA - Subs ENG)

English Title:Urgent Stories: Resistance, Voice and Vote / Duration: 15 min / color / Country: Chile / Year: 2020-21

Urgent Stories" is a series of social connotation created by audiovisual producers to make visible the needs and experiences of women and dissidents, which are relevant in our territory. This audiovisual series was born to keep alive the flame that started the social revolt in October 2019, and is a collective creation with pandemic origin and contributions from different women in different territories of the country. In the fourth chapter "Resistance, Voice and Vote" we raise as a theme the political incidence of women through the vote. From the first women's vote for president in Chile to the vote for a new parity constitution, different women relate their experiences, struggles and desires about a country that they consider has a lot to change.

Roundtable: Transatlantic Feminisms: Organizing Women

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Speakers:

Michèle Massé (Creadoras Salvajes, CIMA)

Marcela Camacho Pardo (ADEC, MUXC y Colectiva mujeres en acción)

Nina Cavalcanti Tedesco (RAMA)

How are women's associations involved with the hegemonic paradigm that the audiovisual industry supports and reproduces?

Women making audiovisual content on both sides of the Atlantic speak about audiovisual feminisms and how they make social networks between women an alternative for the content creation in order to find a new paradigm. Each one of them will offer her experience as a member of a collective, association, cooperative or working group.

Moderator: Analía Fraser (Dones Visuals, MUA)

Screening El Diablo Es Magnífico

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Duration: 68 min / Original voice: Spanish-French / Subs: English / Country: Chile / Year: 2016

“The Devil’s Magnificent” tells the story of Manu (33), Chilean trans immigrant who tired of the hostility and instability in Paris, decides to return to Chile after 10 years in France. In these last days she will go over different paths of love and sex, conveyed by her memories. Daniel (57), a French friend and academic, offers her a new life with him in Marseille, a marriage, a solution to her immigration issues. But just when Manu realizes her future may not be romantic, but subsidiary, a traveller will bring romance back into her life.

Screening Miriam Miente (available only for users in the UK)

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Duration: 90 min / Original voice: Spanish / Subs: English / Country: Dominican Republic / Year: 2018

The quiet world of a petty bourgeois family begins to unravel from the moment that 14-year-old Miriam meets her boyfriend from the Internet. While her friends enthusiastically prepare the traditional quinceañera party, Miriam does not know how to explain to her family that her boyfriend is black.

Round table: Creating Publics

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Speakers:

Jonathan Ali and Lisa Harewood (Twelve30 Collective)

Maria Luna (MIDBO - Bogotá)

Karoline Pelikan (Cine Latino in London)

Five programmers, artistic directors and festival organisers discuss their experiences in creating spaces and audiences for Latin American cinema in Europe. What are the challenges? And what’s next? In this conversation, the speakers will share their perspectives and views on the future of film exhibition and programming, reflecting on the impact of the pandemic on film production and people’s approaches to movie-going.

Moderator: Dalila Missero (Oxford Brookes University)

Screening Estoy acá (Mangui fi)

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Duration: 77 min / Original voice: Spanish / Subs: English / Country: Argentina / Year: 2017

Ababacar and Mbaye are two young Senegalese immigrants who met in Buenos Aires and became great friends. Driven by the same cultural idea of being a sacrificed son, their journey takes them in different directions and makes them see their immigrant status in different ways. But their friendship is like a mirror, which reflects a version of each other that is different from what they think.