the film screening Happinessof Violet Salamahas inaugurated this Thursday the XXII Film Show Made by Women which is celebrated until Sunday, the 20th, in the Olympia Theater from Huesca.
The director took it upon herself, with her debut feature, to officially kick off this event from Huesca with women’s cinema and showed this newspaper her joy and gratitude “for have the opportunity to be in Huesca to see the film with the public. Thus she revealed that it had been a long time since “I really wanted to be in a movie theater full of people”.
In this sense, Salama made reference to the fact that “this experience is being fantastic at the same time that turbulentbecause I have had the pandemic, now the war, and everything is like too complicated to be able to enjoy the moment, but I enjoy it a lot because you don’t know how long this is going to last”.
Regarding this sample from Huesca, he pointed out that “every festival that allows directors interact with the public is a great initiativeif that festival encourages these directors to be women, it is much better”.
In line with which, the film director commented to this newspaper that “we are in a rare time for women in the industryit is obvious that access to positions of power is much more limited” and criticized that “now it seems that we are being questioned about how we got here, whether on our own merits or because of a quota, but it is being shown that women have come to the cinema to stay, not just to make first films”. In addition, Salama stressed that, “above all, the public is responding”.
With Happinessits director, raised in Melillawarned that he had tried to “pay homage to Melilla outside the news, the unknown Melilla, outside the fence, the problem with human trafficking, drug trafficking, jihadism, that other city that I do know well, to that most romantic part in the coexistence of a city that is on the border where yes there is a conflictive part but people who have their lives continue to live despite the conflicts.
It is the origin of this life comedy that presents some characters capable of creating bridges and resolving conflicts over differences, with whose plot it defends “the message that purity does not existthe good thing is the mix and progress is in the mix”, said the filmmaker, who “is related to that cultural mix and with that need to tell about coexistence”, and emphasized her own experiences: “I come from a very obvious cultural mixmy father is from a Jewish family and my mother from a Catholic one, in addition to military origin, which from a young age led me to understand that there were two very different cities, with a dominant culture, which was then the Catholic one that made the others have to look for their little holes and that led to creating curious things like that in a restaurant you can find Jewish, Muslim and even mixed food”.
And although he confessed that “It was dizzying to talk about the subject of religion”which he approaches from respect and intimacy, “because even in my family it has been a very hot topic and one that we have always tried to avoid at family meals because religion evolves and you don’t know where the other is in their spirituality , basically that is the idea that religion is a personal thing for each one and not a little flag that has to be taught and less that it is a throwing weapon”.
Before the screening of Happinesswith a very good reception, was screened The code of the differentof the American Salome Chasnoffon the treatment of disability in Hollywood films, which featured a discussion by caddis to analyze this matter and, shortly after, the filmmaker from Huesca Laura Sipan presented the documentary Soukenia. 4400 days of nighton the military occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco, and participated in a colloquium with the entity alouda (Friends of the Saharawi people of Alto Aragón).