The Me Too social movement was born in 2006 thanks to sexual assault survivor activist Tarana Burke. It emerged as a collective call against gender-based violence, making visible the experiences of those who have suffered abuse and harassment, and since its global expansion in 2017, due to the denunciation of Alyssa Milano, it has changed the way cinema addresses consent, power and the representation of gender-based violence.

This movement has given rise to new stories, new ways of telling and new questions: How do you represent trauma without re-victimising? How do you create narratives that make abuse visible without exploiting it? How do you make cinema that not only denounces, but also heals and transforms?

Our Me Too category not only seeks to denounce violence, but also to open space for dialogue, reflection and transformation through art. By making these stories visible from multiple perspectives – testimonial, symbolic, or experimental – we weave a collective archive of resistance. Through this selection, we invite the audience to imagine new ways of narrating the unnamable, of re-signifying and constructing, through film, otherpossible futures.

VIRGINIA VIÑOLES – CURATOR

ASHES

by Gabriela Alejandra Orlandi – Argentina

A couple begins a game of chess as they do daily.
The game turns out to be a metaphor between their relationship

DAY 1

by Ana Montaño & Eduardo García – México

Rocio, a teenage girl, gets ready for her first day of high school. The next day, she leaves home and takes the bus to school, without knowing that this trip will change her life forever.

8TH FEBRUARY

by Sara Martínez Sanz – Spain

Elisa, an aspiring actress, goes to talk about her experience to a journalist. During the interview she becomes aware of what she has gone through and the guilt she is carrying. Based on a true story.

IN THOUSAND PETALS

by Louise Bongartz – France

A young married woman collects the sweet memories of her romance. On closer inspection, she leaves bits of herself behind…

SOMETIMES I lIKE TO BELIEVE THAT I’M THE AIR

by Luisa Urbina – Guatemala

Through analogies, picture interventions and experimental staging, a group of women create a collective testimony about the different kinds of sexual aggressions they’ve experienced. In the search of healing these wounds through sorority, they describe what happened, who they are and who they want to be.

UNDER THE WATER

by Isabella Andronos – Australia

When an eleven-year-old girl is confronted with misogynistic taunts and violence from the boys in her town, a series of strange happenings lead to her revisit a storybook about the sirens of the sea. Inspired by these creatures, she finds the power in herself to push back.

TAIL OF WOMEN & WOLVES

by Giuia Pandolfini – Denmark/Italy

Short film that denounces Violence against Women with the metaphor of a Wolf attacked by a herd of Jackals.

AND THEN THEY ARRIVED

by Silvia Tort – Mexico

The days of a family (mother, daughter and son) pass by with apparent tranquility… but there is something that doesn’t quite fit. At the same time, the news talks about Las Vigilantas, a group of organized women with the firm mission of going out into the streets to protect girls and women in danger. And then they came is a short film that tells a story as important as it is urgent.