curator statement:
The Me Too social movement was born in 2006 thanks to sexual assault survivor activist Tarana Burke. It emerged as a collective call against gender-based violence, making visible the experiences of those who have suffered abuse and harassment, and since its global expansion in 2017, due to the denunciation of Alyssa Milano, it has changed the way cinema addresses consent, power and the representation of gender-based violence.
This movement has given rise to new stories, new ways of telling and new questions: How do you represent trauma without re-victimising? How do you create narratives that make abuse visible without exploiting it? How do you make cinema that not only denounces, but also heals and transforms?
Our Me Too category not only seeks to denounce violence, but also to open space for dialogue, reflection and transformation through art. By making these stories visible from multiple perspectives – testimonial, symbolic, or experimental – we weave a collective archive of resistance. Through this selection, we invite the audience to imagine new ways of narrating the unnamable, of re-signifying and constructing, through film, other possible futures.
Virginia Viñoles
