Film festivals
have been held over the last weeks in different cities and in different
countries. Among the most famous ones, we could mention the Venice Film
Festival, the Toronto Film Festival and the San Sebastian Film festival. Today
I think that it´s worth noticing that film festivals do not only tell us about
new worlds or realitites we are not aware of, film festivals are also a part of
our societies and as such, they mirrow what is hapenening around us. This year,
the debates which were triggered off by the #Me Too movement also hogged the
limelight in some of those film festivals. For instance, in the 66th
edition of the San Sebastian film festival the idea that actors such as Juliette
Binoche or the director of the festival – José Luis Rebordinos – conveyed was
that equality in festivals should be targeted
at the jury, that is, there should be parity in the the members of the
jury that decide on the films that are selected for the festivals rather than
in othe types of choice because gender shouldn´t play such an important role in
art in the sense that the fact that a film has been directed by a man or a
woman doesn´t make it better or worse per se.
