Barcelona International Women's Film Festival (Spanish: Mostra Films Dones Barcelona) is an exhibition platform established in 1993 with the aim of promoting women-led film. With year-round programming, Mostra projects work to highlight work of filmmakers from around the world, increasing the visibility of women's film culture, and showing the importance of women's contribution to audiovisual creation.
History
The Barcelona International Women's Film Festival (also known as Mostra) was established in
Barcelona
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in 1993, to promote and highlight films made by women, and to increase the visibility of women's contribution to audiovisual culture. Over twenty five years, the festival has become a cultural mainstay of the city, a launching pad for alternative creations, and a forum for discourse and debate on topics relating to women, film and the creative process.
The festival is non-competitive, and for most of its history focused on experimental and documentary film, though it also screened fictional work. In 2013, the festival changed its format to include various "sections", including
monographs
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, various themes and extra-short videos. According to organizers, "along this journey we have become debtors as well as heirs of the female filmmakers oeuvres" and for that reason, seek to share film "genealogies", whether new creations or rediscovering historic work of women.
The festival is supported by sponsors, as well as municipal and national institutions, including the City of Barcelona, and the Spanish Ministry of Culture. The festival also collaborates with local and national cultural institutes. Mostra also collaborates with other women's film festivals in Spain and elsewhere, such as the
Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil.
See also
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List of women's film festivals
Women's film festivals are film events geared to promote women in the film industry. Women’s film festivals began due to the lack of female voice within the film industry. To combat this hindrance, their own film festival was designed. Most women ...
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Women's cinema
Women's cinema primarily describes cinematic works directed (and optionally produced too) by women filmmakers. The works themselves do not have to be stories specifically about women and the target audience can be varied.
It is also a variety of ...
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Women's film festivals
Annual events in Spain
Film festivals established in 1993
Film festivals in Catalonia