A day devoted to women filmmakers, this program brings together five striking works that trace varied cinematic languages and perspectives. The selection highlights directors who reshape narrative form, visual composition and emotional rhythm—from intimate character studies to formally adventurous pieces. Through concentrated screenings the programme invites reflection on gender, authorship and film history, encouraging close attention to craft, mood and thematic resonance. Presented as a curated sequence, the films map a plurality of voices and aesthetic strategies.

Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov, Soy Cuba traces multiple stories of Cuban society before the revolution, exploring living conditions, aspirations and contradictions in a country on the brink of political transformation. Produced as a Soviet–Cuban collaboration, the film is famed for its formal audacity: virtuosic camera movements, bold visual compositions and spectacular staging. Long rediscovered after its release, it is now regarded as a landmark in cinema history, an intense, sensory portrait that marries lyricism and political urgency.

In Spanish with French subtitles. Screening in collaboration with Filmar. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Cecilia Cardoso, a member of the festival team.

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Nobody Knows follows four children left to fend for themselves in a Tokyo apartment, led by an eldest sibling who struggles to hold the fragile family together. Shot with quiet observation and intimate attention to everyday gestures, the film builds a delicate portrait of childhood, solitude and hidden precarity. Kore-eda’s restrained direction reveals the complexity of familial bonds and the small acts of freedom children invent to endure and survive.

Japanese with French subtitles.

Nicolas Roeg’s first feature follows a brother and sister stranded in the Australian desert who must learn to survive after encountering a young Aboriginal man on a walkabout. A major work of 1970s British and Australian cinema, the film contrasts Western and Aboriginal worldviews while offering a striking visual meditation on landscape, survival and dislocation. Roeg’s elliptical editing and luminous cinematography make the narrative an atmospheric, sometimes haunting study of cultural encounter and loss.

In English with French subtitles.