Etiqueta: Gender roles
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The Republic of Women (El país de las mujeres)
What would happen if gender roles were reversed? In the national election of Faguas –imaginary country that is featured in Gioconda Belli’s novels- the ELP (Erotic Left-Wing Party) has triumphed. It is a party formed by women willing to change things in a country entirely dominated by men. During its government, the ELP makes…
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You Know Nothing About Me (No sabes nada de mí)
Who are the Spanish female spies? Their identities were never revealed, but their work was key to solving some of the juiciest and darkest cases of the Spanish 20th century. From spies involved in cases of ETA (Basque armed separatist organization) to those more recent ones who have investigated Jihadism in Spain, Cernuda ventures…
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Three (Tres) (Film)
Rocío, Ángela and Carlota have not seen one another in the last twenty years, concretely, since they finished their studies. Having been inseparable friends until that moment, the future took them to different points. Now they have a common certainty: they feel lonesome. In the course of a long night, they try to find…
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The Blue Overall (El Mono Azul)
During the Spanish Civil War, four militia women are isolated, all alone and lost when going behind the fascist lines. They know they are close so they stay hidden in a bell tower of a demolished church. There, they are looking for the way back to Madrid, but soon they start fighting with each other.…
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6th of August (6 de agosto) – Original Project
The last human survivors in the world are a neurotic scientist; a philosopher/rhapsodist keen on absinthe; a military professional, barely intelligent enough to open a can of sardines; an angry historian; a sweet and tender stripper; Palmira, a mechanic, whose only difference with a truck driver is her ratted hair; and Ruben, a geek who…
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The comedy of Carla and Luisa (La comedia de Carla y Luisa)
Carla and Luisa are two professional independent women who theoretically have the same opportunities as men. However, the male characters try their best to limit their opportunities. This makes the protagonists unable to find happiness and balance in their lives. It will be the friendship between the two of them that allows them to survive…
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Maror: the rules of gender (Maror: las reglas del género)
The romantic novel becomes a crime novel It's winter and in an isolated summer sea house some family members get together to spend a few days: Isabel, famous best-selling fiction author, her husband, Pablo; their daughter, Esperanza, and Pilar, Isabel’s sister. The breaking news is that the protagonist wants to abandon her career as a…
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Sublime decision! (¡Sublime decisión!)
The battle of the sexes through a public window Florita is a housewife in the late nineteenth-century Spain. One day she decides to emancipate and try her luck in the working world. Her family, friends and boyfriend are scandalized. This is her "sublime decision": to work in the Public Administration. And she will work in a…
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Love is written without an h (Amor se escribe sin hache)
Put a collector of lovers in your life Lady Sylvia Brums is a beautiful young woman who belongs to the aristocracy and is a specialist in collecting lovers. She has chosen Elias Pérez Seltz, alias Zambombo, as her new conquer. He is a young partier, the antithesis of the gallant, but he falls in love…
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The weaker sex has gone to the gym (El sexo débil ha hecho gimnasia)
This story, with sense of humor, recounts the integration of women into civil society, first, in the first half of the 19th century, then, in the second half of the 20th century. The love affairs and problems of an aunt and her nieces, belonging to the middle-class in 1846, happen again a hundred years later…
