Las novias del sur / Carta a mi madre para mi hijo
Las novias del sur
Elena López Riera. 2024. Spain. 37 min.
Starting out from a photograph of her mother on her wedding day, Elena López Riera wonders what that smiling young girl must be feeling. This reflection leads on to a small group of older women talking frankly about their marriage, their first experiences and their intimate relationship with sexuality.
Through these universal moments in life, the director places in question her own story, which breaks with the chain of mother-daughter relations, and offers a fresh, unfiltered dialogue in which women share their most intimate experiences in relation to desire in front of the camera.
Carta a mi madre para mi hijo
Carla Simón. 2022. Italy, Spain. 24min Carla is pregnant and naked, just like in the photos where her mother poses pregnant with Carla herself. Sunlight streams through the windows. We see flashes of Super 8 footage of grandparents, aunts, uncles, parents, great-grandparents; smiling, sewing, reciting poetry. Then, we watch a young woman grow from the 60s to the present day, passing through the 80s, crossing the thresholds of femininity and history, until she meets a pregnant Carla under the blue sky of the Catalan coast.
