Rural Women's Day

For the first time, Instituto Cervantes is joining in the celebration of International Rural Women's Day, which is held every year on October 15, with the screening of two works by director Celia Viada Caso, who has focused much of her work on bringing women who live in rural areas closer to the audience. Her debut feature film, La calle del Agua, and the short film Gregoria, shot after the warm reception of her first feature film, can be viewed on our Vimeo channel.

Celia Viada Caso's (Madrid, 1991) training as a visual anthropologist is evident in the way she approaches the protagonists of her works, where she uses the tools of non-fiction cinema to take on the challenge of creating portraits that, without losing their naturalistic relevance, turn the stories of her women into good cinema. Her documentary work also demonstrates a superb reading and reinterpretation of the elements that analyze the female body and territory, which has also led to a study of film archives.

The fruit of this line of work has made Celia Viada worthy of being the guest filmmaker to develop her documentary film project at the 10th Films of the Punto de Vista Festival in 2024, a project in which she has approached the figure of the exiled María Luisa Elío.