This March 2024, Instituto Cervantes will showcase its annual film series, Espacio Femenino, to honor the works and culture created by women for women. Screening will be at 2 p.m. on the following dates: 7, 14, 16, 21 and 23 for the general audience and is going to take place at Instituto Cervantes’ Intramuros branch. Viewing is free on a first-come, first-served seating arrangement.

On 7 March, the film series officially starts with África 815 (2015), a creative documentary written, produced and directed by Pilar Monsell using her father’s photographs and diaries. The film series will continue on 14 March, with La mami (2019), written and directed by Laura Herrero Garvín to unfold the raw realities of escort ladies at the Barba Azul cabaret in Mexico City.

On 16 March, three short films will be screened: Oro rojo (2021), written and directed by Carme Gomila; Escamas (2020), co-written and directed by Katherina Harder; and Sorda (2021), written and directed by Nuria Muñoz Ortiz and Eva Libertad.

The fourth film in the series has been set on 21 March, with the showing of Las cinéphilas (2017). It is the first feature length documentary in a trilogy about art and its meaning in the passage of time, as written and directed by María Alvarez.

Espacio Femenino will conclude on 23 March with Viaje al cuarto de una madre (2018), an award-winning debut film that encompasses the relationship between a mother and daughter as they learn their own identity as women and as individuals.

The film series, presented by Instituto Cervantes de Manila in collaboration with the Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona and the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines, will be in Spanish with English subtitles. Entrance is free. Visit Instituto Cervantes’ Facebook site (www.facebook.com/InstitutoCervantesManila) or log on into: https://cultura.cervantes.es/manila/en/espacio-femenino.-imaginarios-alborotados/167699.