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69th edition. October 18-26, 2024
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Clara Campoamor arrives in Madrid From her Argentinean exile to find out if she will be able to return to Spain. During her anxious wait, she visits the places in Madrid that have most marked her life, such as the neighbourhood of her childhood, her lawyer’s office (she was the first registered lawyer in Spain, along with Victoria Kent) and the Ateneo. The Central Post Office building takes us to San Sebastián, where she worked as a telephone operator. The most important, however, is the Palacio de las Cortes. She was a member of Spain’s parliament and one of the writers of the Republican constitution. Thanks to her sheer determination, she managed to obtain recognition for women’s suffrage —a historic landmark of gender equality.
Born in Toledo in 1948, he worked for nearly 20 years at Spain’s public broadcaster TVE before going into film. His filmography includes the feature films ‘No hagas planes con Marga’ (1988), ‘The Greek Labyrinth’ (1992), ‘Corsarios del chip’ (1996), ‘Cat Kisses’ (2003), ‘Las locuras de Don Quijote’ (2006) and ‘Huidas y ausencias’ (2020), as well as the short film ‘Ecos de Clara Campoamor’ (2022). He directed several episodes of the documentary series ‘España Historia inmediata’ and other documentaries such as ‘Rutas de Don Quijote’ (2022), ‘El libro: Nacimiento y esplendor’ (2020), ‘El cardenal: Cisneros’ (2019) or ‘Unamuno apasionado’.
