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familiar with the films of Enrique Urbizu, David Trueba or Montxo Armendárix and want to find out more and follow these and other filmmakers...’The festival, now in its 24th year and growing steadily with an audience of nearly 30,000 people, devotes part of its programme to women’s films with a cycle entitled ‘Filmer au féminin / Le féminin filmé’. Eighteen feature-length films and shorts, meetings with the guest women directors (Mar Coll, Judith Colell, Mireia Gabilondo, Aizpea Goenaga, Isabel de Ocampo, Inés Paris and Helena Taberna), a roundtable, two exhibitions and a video installation by Vanessa Rousselot complete the programme.‘I think it’s more than appropriate’, comments the director Isabel de Ocampo, who is presenting Evelyn as part of the cycle and is also president of the European Women’s Audiovisual Network. ‘Seventy percent of the people who study artistic degrees are women and only 7% of films are directed by them, so there’s a major imbalance. Plus we make up half of the population so it’s essential we are listened to in order to enrich the message’. Women’s visibility is just one of the problems Spanish films currently face. However, the director of Nantes festival, Pilar Martínez- Vasseur, is optimistic. ‘I always say that Spanish cinema is a chronically ill patient with an iron constitution. Since the post-war period, films have been made under complicated conditions and there have always been structural obstacles.Cinema186Results ‘14