MATRIOSKAS. LAS NIÑAS DE LA GUERRA (2021)

Exile and resilience

Spain-France. Direction: Helena Bengoetxea. Production: Haruru Filmak, SINCRO, Pyramide Production. Executive production: David Berraondo, Isabelle Neuvialle, Rubén Marcilla. Screenplay: Helena Bengoetxea. Photography: Iñaki Alforja. Music: Pascal Gaigne. Edition: Joselu Castro, Helena Bengoetxea. Running time: 74 min.

LANGUAGE: Spanish, Russian / SUBTITLES: Spanish

Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Audio description session (AudescMobile) / Collaborator: ONCE

Teresa, Alicia, Araceli and Julia are four nonagenarian women, apparently common, hide four extraordinary lives marked by uprooting and exile: from Spain to Russia and then to Cuba. Self-made women and heroines of their own trajectory, their memories of hunger, cold and fear of war are mixed with nostalgia for a home that welcomed them and no longer exists, the remoteness of a territory they barely know and, for some, the return to a country that is not the one they dreamed about.

Invitations: Victoria Eugenia Antzokia & Teatro Principal (March 25th / 11:30)

TALK: Helena Bengoetxea (film director), F. Javier Murillo (director of the UNESCO Chair on Education for Social Justice at the Autonomous University of Madrid)