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A los libros y a las mujeres canto

To Books And Women I Sing · To Books And Women I Sing

María Elorza

2022, ESP, 72', M12


Há Filmes na Baixa! / International Competition 2023 / María Elorza in Focus 2023

21 Dec 2023 · Passos Manuel · 22H00

19 Nov 2023 · Batalha Centro de Cinema - Room 1 · 21H15

22 Nov 2023 · Passos Manuel · 19H15


EN geral

In this film, "literature" rhymes with "woman". Director María Elorza's first feature film is an ode to four women who found in the pleasure of books and reading, a form of resistance to ignorance and fanaticism. One of them carried a library in the back of her car, another broke her finger when a bookcase fell on her and another read to tobacco workers. A collection of stories told through a plethora of materials (interviews, archive images, photographs, paintings, family films, intertitles, songs and film excerpts) with a simple aim: to reveal the civilising role of women in contemporary society.

A los libros y a las mujeres canto premiered at the San Sebastian festival and had its international premiere at the Rotterdam festival.