How to exist in a sexist and listener society? Gabriela, Celma and Klicia, three deaf women with different realities, share their struggles and trajectories in the deaf feminist movement.
Content Alert: Ableism, sexist violence
Brazil 2020
Larissa Nepomuceno
12:55 min
Portuguese / sign language with English subtitles
Short / Docu
“Sobre elas” examines diverse female alliances in which different women collaborate, strengthening the network of mutual support. It emphasizes that women’s liberation is not an individual endeavor but a collective force.
Content Alert: Experiences of domestic violence and transphobia are addressed.
Brazil 2022
Bruna Arcangelo
14:07 min
Portuguese with English subtitles
Short / Docu
“El Torito” is a documentary that portrays the life of the LBGTQIA+ community in Silao, Guanajuato. This community has embraced one of the characters “la Marínguía” and through it has given itself a voice in society.
Content Alert: Deadnaming/misgendering of a trans person by family members.
Mexiko 2021
Roberto Salazar
10:16 min
Spanish with English subtitles
Short / Docu
“I was about seven years old the first time someone called me Black on the street. I turned around to see who they were talking to, until I realized it was me. That day I understood I was Black, and the laughter it caused among the people nearby made me think being a Black person wasn’t that great.”
“Negra” shows the director in her search of exploring what it means to inhabit Mexico as a black woman. It tells the story of five afro-descendant women from southern Mexico, exposing racism, resistance and processes of self-acceptance, strategies for transcending stereotypes, and the celebration of their identity.
Content Alert: Racism
Mexico 2020
Medhin Tewolde Serrano
01:11:44 h
Spanish with English subtitles
Feature / Docu
In the year 2019, women from various indigenous nations of Argentina peacefully occupy the Ministry of the Interior in Buenos Aires. There, they advocate for an end to violence in their home territories and emphasize the urgent need to restore reciprocity and solidarity between peoples and nature. Despite the indifference of the state and society, the film also highlights another, more solidary aspect of society.
Argentina 2022
Maria Laura Vásquez
1:20:00 h
Spanish with English subtitles
Feature / Docu
In the Nahua community of Hueyapan, Puebla, the stories of a generation of women who have resolutely left social boundaries behind come to life. With their intricate embroidery, unyielding spirit, and deep self-awareness, they weave their destinies together to reinvent themselves and chart the course of their own history.
Content Alert: Experiences of domestic violence are addressed.
Mexico 2021
Evelyn Mercedes Muñoz Marroquin
15:00 min
Spanish with English subtitles
Short / Docu
Charito dedicated herself to recording each and every family celebration with her VHS camera. In those records, the family group seems to be happy and Charito’s mother seems to be the center of the parties. But the emotive images are completely different from the current reality, where a distant family avoids talking about the reasons of the breakdown.
Chile 2021
Enzo Destefani Espinosa
25:00 min
Spanish with English subtitles
Short / Docu
In the Ribeira Valley in southeastern São Paulo, a cooperative of Quilombola farmers is coming together to combat the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. They developed an emergency plan to distribute organically grown food from their traditional farms to vulnerable communities in the Favelas.
Brazil 2022
Manoela Meyer, Roberto Almeida
22:37 min.
Portuguese with English subtitles
Short / Docu