Las Buenas Compañías / In the Company of Women
DRAMA, BASED ON TRUE EVENTS
SHOWING: APRIL 5
SYNOPSIS:
Summer 1977. Bea is 16 and joins the winds of change blowing through the country; she collaborates with a group of women to raise awareness of the feminist cause and to help them have an abortion in decent conditions. The rebelliousness boiling in her blood will mingle with an unexpected feeling and turn her life upside down: she falls in love with a girl a little older than herself and from a good family. What she doesn’t realize is that this mysterious girl, Miren, has a secret that will catapult Bea directly into the painful world of adults.
2023 – San Sebastian International Film Festival – 71st edition.
2023, Directed by Silvia Munt, 94 minutes, color, in Euskara & Spanish with English subtitles
- Showing at the Basque Cultural Center, Friday, April 5, 2024 | FREE
About the Director – SILVIA MUNT
Outstanding films featuring Silvia Munt (Barcelona, Spain. 1957) as an actress are La plaça del diamant / The Time of the Doves (Francesc Betriu, 1981), Sal gorda (Coarse Salt, Fernando Trueba, 1983), Alas de mariposa / Butterfly Wings (Juanma Bajo Ulloa, 1991) Golden Shell in San Sebastian for which she also won the Goya for Best Actress, La pasión turca (Vicente Aranda, 1994), and Secretos del corazón / Secrets of the Heart (Montxo Armendariz, Made in Spanish, 1996). In 2003 she directed her first full-length film, the documentary Elena Dimitrievna Diakonova Gala (Made in Spain), followed by her first fiction, Pretextos / Pretexts (2007), Silver Biznaga for Best Director in Málaga, the festival in which she once again participated with Las buenas compañías / In the Company of Women. She was a member of the Official Jury in 2003.