The festival Looks of the Mediterranean begins in today’s, in Lisbon, exploring the theme of migration and refugees.
The festival Looks to the Mediterranean explores the paths of the films made in the female, in the countries of the mediterranean region, although the program of this edition is marked, above all, by the theme of migrations.
in This third edition, the festival was envisioned more than 500 films offered, nearly three times more than last year, and many of them deal with issues of migration, refugees, a theme that could not work around for this programming, as told to the Lusa Antonia Pedroso de Lima, of the organization.
For four days, in the São Jorge cinema, the festival will show 22 films and has a new cycle, entitled Crossing, dedicated to “refugees and forced migration”, which will open on Thursday with the Spanish film Corredos of fons, with the presence of the director Isabel Fernández.
On Friday, yet the purpose of this cycle ushers in a collective exhibition of photography, signed by refugee women in Portugal.
the Looks of the Mediterranean appears to fill a space open in the panorama of film festivals in Portugal: “We found that there was a festival focused in the region of the Mediterranean and in the cinema made by women. There is a similar festival in Marseille that inspired us,” said Antónia Pedroso de Lima.
The official opening of the festival, Thursday night, with Exotica, erotica, etc., a documentary by Evangelia Kranioti, whose production and filming lasted for almost a decade, “about the life of sailors on the high sea and their amorous encounters acts of god”.
Among the selected films there are several productions in portugal, such as The fighter revolutions, Margarida Rêgo, Maxamba, Suzanne Barnard and Sofia Borges, and Depicting Marina, Graziella Moretto.
The festival also aims to draw attention to the discrepancy in the international panorama, in particular in Portugal, the participation of men and women in contemporary cinema: “The presence of women is still very low,” said Antónia Pedroso de Lima, who is a professor of Anthropology at ISCTE.
In Portugal, the percentage of women producers of feature films of spent 19.3 per cent (2001-2003) to 37,8 per cent (2011-2013) and documentaries rose from 36 per cent (2001-2003) 53.8 per cent (2011-2013).
The data were released in 2015 by the Institute of Social Sciences, in the framework of an international meeting in Lisbon on gender equality in the cinema, promoted by the european fund Eurimages.
according To the Eurimages, there are still many inequalities between men and women: The women directors and actresses have lower salaries than men, the movies we produce have lower premiums.
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