Maeve, Pat Murphy, UK-Ireland, 1981, 110'. EN sub. ES

Pat Murphy’s first and most experimental feature film was informed by feminist debates on the objectification of women and by the unresolved questions of the relationship between feminism and nationalism. Set during the Troubles, the titular Maeve, played by Mary Jackson, returns to Belfast after a long absence in London. She stays in her family home where her sister Roisín (Bríd Brennan) still lives with their father, Martin (Mark Mulholland); she also meets up again with her old boyfriend Liam (John Keegan). 

Shot in Belfast with both professional and non-professional actors, and at the height of the conflict, this film creates a story in which the personal and the political are interwoven at a profound level. A powerful portrait of a young woman who, on visiting her city after a long absence, is confronted with the violence that haunts her streets and memories.

Presented by Noemi Cuetos.

Graduate in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication, with a specialisation diploma in Cultural Communication, and a postgraduate degree in Film Curating from the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. Since 2007 she has worked in communication and press departments of international film festivals such as Punto de Vista, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Doha Tribeca Film Festival and the London Spanish Film Festival. For seven years she was Communications Coordinator at Documental Ambulante A.C., a Mexican organisation that promotes the documentary genre as a tool for change through a travelling film festival, training in rural and indigenous communities, and film distribution with advocacy campaigns. His research experience includes a study of cinema audiences in municipalities in Gipuzkoa and research on the 1er Encuentro de Escuelas de Cine at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 1960, within the framework of the programme Zinemaldi 70: todas las historias posibles (Zinemaldi 70: all possible stories). She currently collaborates with Tabakalera Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, the film distribution and production company Vitrine Filmes, the ICAA, and Punto de Vista festival; and is vice-coordinator of Unión de Cineastas.