Strong' women – latinate quarter London Film Festival 2015 blog

With a selection of films that covered the collective struggle of the suffragette movement to individual women’s battles for the right to determine their own destinies, this year’s London Film Festival was ringingly declared in advance to be the ‘strong women’ festival by its artistic director Clare Stewart. The stir caused at the festival’s opening film, Suffragette, when a group of feminists lay down on the red carpet in protest at cuts to domestic violence services, not only bore this out but demonstrated, yet again, that in regards to gender inequality and abuse, in one of the protester’s words, “the battle isn’t over yet.” The films I’ve chosen to focus on in my LFF round-up – Spanish-language in the main, plus one French film shot in Spain and one Italian – would all indicate, both in their subject matter and behind the camera, that women were indeed the festival’s clear protagonists this year.

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