Rural Women's Day

For the first time, the Instituto Cervantes joins the celebration of International Rural Women's Day, 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 exploring women who live in rural areas. On our Vimeo channel, you can see her debut feature, La calle del Agua, and the short film Gregoria, filmed after the positive reception of her first feature film.

Celia Viada Caso's (Madrid, 1991) training as a visual anthropologist is evident in the way she approaches the subjects of her works, using the tools of non-fiction film to take on the challenge of creating portraits that, without losing their naturalistic relevance, transform 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 the 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 invited filmmaker to develop her documentary film project at the X Films of the Punto de Vista Festival in 2024, a project in which she has approached the figure of the exiled María Luisa Elío.