It is the only independent film festival in China and Hong Kong dedicated to #womeninfilm and #empowerment. The BATURU Festival, formerly known as the China Women’s Film Festival, advocates for women’s rights and raises awareness about issues specifically affecting women in both culture and society at large.
To promote the international mobility of Spanish women directors, the exchange of experiences, and cultural cooperation, the following will travel to Beijing and Shanghai with the support of the Cervantes Institutes in both cities and the BATURU Festival: directors Arantxa Echevarría, Sonia Méndez, and Pilar Sánchez Díaz (producer and director of photography of Chinas), along with the directors of RAMPA and the Films by Women Madrid Festival, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
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Venues:
Instituto Cervantes Beijing
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Instituto Cervantes Shanghai
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Beijing Film Archive
Series: NEW SPANISH CINEMA: 7 films/ 6 female directors
Fiction, 111’ | Production: Spain, 2024 Screening 1: Screening 2: Goya Award for Best New Actress; Best Actress at SEMINCI; Feroz Award for Best Drama Film; Feroz Award for Best Poster; Gaudí Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best New Actress; Jury Mention and 3rd Youth Award at Locarno (Switzerland). 2. Las buenas compañías, Silvia Munt Fiction, 103’ | Production: Spain/France, 2023; LGBTQI+ Screening 1: Synopsis: Bea joins a feminist group, where, together with her companions, she will challenge the law to live in a fairer world. Based on real events. Audience Award at the San Sebastián Human Rights Festival and Young Jury Award in Málaga. Fiction, 120’ | Production: Spain, 2024 Screening 1: Screening 2: Synopsis: An infiltrator for years within the Basque nationalist left. ETA contacts her, starting the most difficult mission of her life: informing her superiors while living with terrorists. A story based on real events. Goya 2024 for Best Film, Goya for Best Actress (Carolina Yuste); Thirteen nominations for the Goya Awards; Forqué Award for Best Female Performance (Carolina Yuste); Feroz Award for Best Direction; Best Spanish Film Award at the Madrid Cine por Mujeres Festival 2024. Fiction, 118’ | Production: Spain, 2023 Screening 1: Screening 2: Synopsis: Three Chinese-origin girls live in Madrid with opposing realities. Their stories intersect and separate, but they share the common search for identity. Starring Carolina Yuste and Leonor Watling. Fiction, 82’ | Production: Spain, 2024 Screening 2: Winner of the Golden Biznaga for Best Film in Málaga, Best Feature Film at the Mestre Mateo Awards, and nominated at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Fiction, 105’ | Production: Spain, 2024 Screening 1: Screening 2: Synopsis: Nina returns to the village where she grew up, with a rifle in her bag and one goal: revenge. Selected for the San Sebastián, D'A, and Las Palmas Festivals. Critics' Award in Málaga. Official Trailer | Full movie details Fiction, 110’ | Production: Spain, 2023 Screening 1: Screening 2: Presentation and Q&A with the project directors, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles. Synopsis: Based on the true story of the Republican teacher Antoni Benaiges, it intertwines the present and the past, in the weeks leading up to the start of the Civil War. Winner of the Spanish competition at the 6th edition of the Cine por Mujeres Madrid Festival. Selected for SEMINCI, nominated for the Goya, Gaudí, and Feroz Awards. 
1. Salve María, Mar Coll
Instituto Cervantes Shanghai: Saturday, May 3, 2025. 16:30h.
Instituto Cervantes Beijing: Wednesday, May 21, 2025.18:30h.
Presentation and Q&A with the project directors, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
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Instituto Cervantes Shanghai: Saturday May 10, 2025. 14:30h.
Presentation and Q&A with the project directors, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
Screening 2:
Instituto Cervantes Beijing: Saturday May 17, 2025. 16:00h.
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3. La infiltrada, Arantxa Echevarría
Instituto Cervantes Beijing: Monday May 12, 2025. 18:30h.
Presentation and Q&A with the film director, Arantxa Echevarría, and the project directors, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
Instituto Cervantes Shanghai: Thursday May 15, 2025. 19:00h.
Presentation and Q&A with the film director, Arantxa Echevarría, and the project directors, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
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4. Chinas, Arantxa Echevarría
Directube Space: Tuesday May 13, 2025. 19:30h.
Presentation and Q&A with the film director, Arantxa Echevarría, Pilar Sánchez Díaz, producer and director of photography, and the project directors, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
Instituto Cervantes Shanghai: Saturday May 17, 2025. 16:30h.
Presentation and Q&A with the film director, Arantxa Echevarría, Pilar Sánchez Díaz, producer and director of photography, and the project directors, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
Selected for San Sebastián, nominated for the Goya Awards.
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5. As Neves, Sonia Méndez
Instituto Cervantes Beijing, Wednesday May 14, 2025. 18:30h.
Presentation and Q&A with the film director, Sonia Méndez, and the project directors, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
Instituto Cervantes Shanghai: Friday May, 16, 2025. 19:00h.
Presentatino and Q&A with the film director, Sonia Méndez, and the project directors, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
Synopsis: A group of teenagers celebrates Carnival. Paula disappears after the party. Meanwhile, the Galician village of As Neves is cut off, and the investigation begins.
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6. Nina, Andrea Jaurrieta
Instituto Cervantes Shanghai: Friday may 23, 2025. 19:00h.
Presentation and Q&A with the project directors, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
Instituto Cervantes Beijing: Saturday May 24, 2025. 16:00h.
Presentation and Q&A with the project directors, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
7. El maestro que prometió el mar, Patricia Font
Instituto Cervantes Shanghai: Saturday May 24, 2025. 16:30h.
Presentation and Q&A with the project directors, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
Instituto Cervantes Beijing: Wednesday May 28, 2025. 18:30h.
Starring Enric Auquer and Laia Costa.
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For 23 years, the Cinécran association has explored European cinema, offering a broad view of the cultural diversity of its countries. We present a carefully curated selection of classic and contemporary films, including rare, cult, short films, feature films, documentaries, fiction, and animation.
In 2025, we pay tribute to Spain, a country with a rich cinematic tradition, great filmmakers, and numerous lesser-known works that are worth rediscovering. This year will be marked by reflection on the role of women in cinema throughout history and the search for greater inclusion in the film industry in the coming years.
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Une nouvelle vague féminine : 6 films / 6 réalisatrices espagnoles
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1. La infiltrada, Arantxa Echevarría
Fiction, 120’ | Production: Spain, 2024
Opening film of the festival.
Cinéville Garenne in Vannes: Monday, May 5, 2025. 20:45h.
Presentation and Q&A with the film producer, María Luisa Gutiérrez, and the project directors, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
Synopsis: An infiltrator for years within the Basque nationalist left. ETA contacts her, starting the most difficult mission of her life: informing her superiors while living with terrorists. A story based on real events.
Goya 2024 for Best Film, Goya for Best Actress (Carolina Yuste); Thirteen nominations for the Goya Awards; Forqué Award for Best Female Performance (Carolina Yuste); Feroz Award for Best Direction; Best Spanish Film Award at the Cine por Mujeres Madrid Festival 2024.
2. 20.000 especies de abejas, Estíbaliz Urresola Solaguren
Fiction, 129’ | Production: Spain, 2023
Screening 1:
Cinéville Garenne in Vannes: Monday May 5, 2025. 18:20h.
Presentation and Q&A with the project directors, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
Screening 2:
Cinéville Garenne in Vannes: Wednesday May 7. 18:00h.
Synopsis: Cocó doesn't understand why everyone around her insists on calling her Aitor. Her family will go on vacation to her grandmother's house, where her aunt raises bees. The three generations of women will face their doubts and fears.
Awarded at Berlinale, Guadalajara, Hong Kong, Málaga, Seattle, San Francisco, and the Forqué Awards. Feroz Award for Best Dramatic Film, Best Supporting Actress (Patricia López Arnaiz). Goya Awards for Best New Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress (Ane Gabarain).
3. As Neves, Sonia Méndez
Fiction, 82’ | Production: Spain, 2024
Cinéville Garenne in Vannes: Monday May, 5. 13:30h.
Synopsis: A group of teenagers celebrates Carnival. Paula disappears after the party. Meanwhile, the Galician village of As Neves is cut off, and the investigation begins.
Best Film Biznaga de Oro in Málaga, Best Feature Film at the Mestre Mateo Awards, nominated in San Sebastián.
4. O Corno, Jaione Camborda
Fiction, 103´ | Production: Spain/Portugal/Belgium, 2023
Screening 1:
Cinéville Garenne in Vannes: Tuesday May 6.14:00h.
Presentation and Q&A with the project directors, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
Screening 2:
Cinéville Garenne in Vannes: Thursday May 8. 14:15h.
Synopsis: Villa de Arousa, 1971. María is a shellfish collector known for helping other women during childbirth, but she must flee and cross the border via a smuggling route.
Concha de Oro at the San Sebastián Festival. Nominated for Feroz Awards and Goya for Best New Actress (Janet Novás).
5. Un lugar común, Celia Giraldo
Fiction, 88’ | Production: Spain, 2024
Cinéville Garenne in Vannes: Wednesday May 7. 18:10h.
Synopsis: Pilar is a devoted mother and a respected nurse, until the day she is fired. Disoriented by this void, she will discover that she can explore and find a new version of herself.
Selected for the D'A, Atlántida, and Cerdanya festivals. Gaudí Award for Best New Director.
6. Los destellos, Pilar Palomero
Fiction, 101’ | Production: Spain, 2024
Cinéville Garenne in Vannes: Wednesday May 7.20:30h.
Synopsis: After fifteen years apart from her ex-husband, Isabel accompanies him in his most vulnerable moment. She will come to see, with new eyes, the failure they experienced.
Best Performance Award at the San Sebastián Festival.
7. Filming in the Feminine – A COLLECTIVE REFLECTION
With a strong desire to commit to collective and democratic practices, the Cinécran team aims to create a collaborative space for exchange, encouraging active participation from all attendees.
Wednesday, May 7 – 10:45 a.m.: Immediate reactions and a talk by Beatriz Navas Valdés, former director of the ICAA.
The Costa Rica International Film Festival (CRFIC), in its 13th edition, celebrates contemporary and independent cinema, fostering a deep dialogue about the joys, pains, interests, and conflicts that shape our societies. Under the recent direction of Patricia Velásquez, the festival aims to become the leading platform for Central American and Hispanic Caribbean cinema. This edition, we are pleased to invite Spain, offering a curated selection of films by contemporary female directors.
To promote the international mobility of Spanish female directors, the exchange of experiences, and cultural cooperation, thanks to the Costa Rica International Film Festival, the following individuals will travel to San José: director Celia Giraldo, and the directors of RAMPA and the Women’s Film Festival Madrid, Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
Venue: Cine Magaly and Centro de Cine
Opening film of the festival: Salve María, by Mar Coll. l: Cine Magaly: Thursday June, 19 .19:00h.
21:00h. CCE Opening party CRFIC
Women Under the Influence: 6 Films / 6 Spanish Directors
Screenings:
1. Salve María, Mar Coll
Fiction, 111’| Production: Spain, 2024
Screening 1:
Cine Magaly: Thursday June, 19. 19:00h.
Opening film screening
Screening 2:
Sala Gómez Miralles. Centro de Cine: viernes 20 de junio. 20:00h.
Synopsis: María, a writer and first-time mother, seeks to understand the intense experience of her own motherhood by writing about Alice, a woman who drowned her children in a tragic incident.
Goya Award for Best New Actress; Best Actress at SEMINCI; Feroz Award for Best Drama Film; Feroz Award for Best Poster; Gaudí Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best New Actress; Jury Mention and 3rd Youth Award at Locarno (Switzerland).
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2. El sueño de la sultana, Isabel Herguera
Animation, 80’ | Production: Spain/Alemania, 2023
Salita del Magaly: Friday June, 20. 14:30h.
Synopsis: Inspired by a feminist tale written in Bengal in 1905, Inés embarks on an initiatory journey through India in search of the utopian land of women.
Vasca Association of Screenwriters Award at San Sebastián, third prize at the Filmfest Hamburg (Germany).
3. Un lugar común, Celia Giraldo
Fiction, 88’ | Production: Spain, 2024
Salita del Magaly: Friday June. 17:30h.
Synopsis: Pilar is a devoted mother and a respected nurse, until the day she is fired. Disoriented by this void, she will discover that she can explore and find a new version of herself.
Selected for the D'A, Atlántida, and Cerdanya festivals. Gaudí Award for Best New Director.
4. Por donde pasa el silencio, Sandra Romero
Fiction, 99’ | Production: Spain, 2024
LGBTQI+
Salita del Magaly: Saturday June, 21. 20:00h.
Synopsis: Antonio regresa a Écija una Semana Santa para ayudar a su hermano mellizo y se enfrenta a su vida pasada, debiendo decidir si se queda o retoma su propio camino.
Seleccionada en el festival de San Sebastián, nominada a Mejor Dirección Novel en los Premios Goya 2025.
5. 20.000 especies de abejas, Estíbaliz Urresola
Fiction, 129’ | Production: Spain, 2023
Salita del Magaly: Sunday June, 22. 14:30h.
Synopsis: Cocó doesn't understand why everyone around her insists on calling her Aitor. Her family will go on vacation to her grandmother's house, where her aunt raises bees. The three generations of women will face their doubts and fears.
Awarded at Berlinale, Guadalajara, Hong Kong, Málaga, Seattle, San Francisco, and the Forqué Awards. Feroz Award for Best Dramatic Film, Best Supporting Actress (Patricia López Arnaiz). Goya Awards for Best New Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress (Ane Gabarain).
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6. Las buenas compañias, Silvia Munt
Fiction, 103’ | Production: Spain/Francia, 2023
LGTBIQ+
Salita del Magaly: monday June, 23. 14.30h.
Synopsis: Bea joins a feminist group, where, together with her companions, she will challenge the law to live in a fairer world. Based on real events.
Audience Award at the San Sebastián Human Rights Festival and Young Jury Award in Málaga.
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