Inventing habitable cartographies

To inhabit is to live or reside in a territory, to occupy a space, to settle down and put down roots, although one can also inhabit displacement, memory, bodies or desires, to wander and travel through them. What does it mean to make a space inhabitable? To make it friendly to life.

The 32nd Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona (MIFDB) returns to theatres and squares with a programme that has cartographies as its backbone. Through the eyes of the filmmakers selected for this year’s edition, we will inhabit spaces and territories, unique and interconnected microcosms. Their cinematic gaze will seek to illuminate and reconstruct dead spot: pixelated and inaccessible spaces like borders and prisons, pages torn out of history books unspeakable desires that defy narrative. Can cinema make a space, a body, a memory more habitable? Can images trace new cartographies?

Vol. I of this edition is divided into five sections: Filmic Persistences, Family Sessions and Retrospective at Sara Gómez, at the Filmoteca de Catalunya, the open-air screenings Cinema out of Place and Special Sessions, at the Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica.