Editorials by the directors to each edition
Editorial to the 2025 edition
Small and medium-sized film festivals: an important link in the Spanish audiovisual ecosystem.
This text is dedicated to the very rich ecosystem of small or medium-sized film festivals, – niche, generalist or thematic – competitions, exhibitions or film panoramas that have been taking pl…
Editorial to the 2024 edition
WOMEN, A MAJORITY MINORITY
Throughout the months that elapse between one edition and the next, we read texts, sentences and comments by authors and journalists who always challenge us... They inspire us to write... this editorial. Here are some quotes that should be engraved with a chisel on stone…
Editorial to the 2022 edition
EQUALITY AS AN OBJECTIVE AND EXCELLENCE BY FLAG: FIVE YEARS OF THE MADRID FILM FESTIVAL FOR WOMEN
When we launched the festival five years ago, we had two clear intentions: we would try to show every year the great wealth and variety of the cinematography directed by women and we would only screen…
Editorial to the 2021 edition
Great women movie director: they exist indeed!
2020 was a disastrous year for humanity from all points of view, but especially for global health and global economy. The film industry has been particularly affected, with the stoppage of shooting, poor box office results and the consolidation of new…
Editorial to the 2020 edition
Seeing differently, with or without COVID 19
The Sustainable Development Goal 5 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda is "Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls". Thus, parity is a human right and a duty of humanity everywhere in the world and in all spheres of life. This is a complex…
Editorial to the 2019 edition
It's our momentum!
The time has come... and if socially the perception of things is the sum of the particular considerations of many people, we understand why many media designated 2018 as the Year of Women.
The situation of social effervescence that we are experiencing after the globalisation of…
Editorial to the 2018 edition
Women were present in the history of cinema from the very first minute: just look at the factory workers' exit filmed by Louis Lumière in 1895, where two shifts of men, women and children crossed paths at the factory gates. At that time, Alice Guy-Blaché was twenty-two years old and perhaps already…
