In parallel to the Seminar, on 16 November, we held a film screening at the Odemira Women’s Prison. This session arose from the desire to expand Doc’s Kingdom’s activities within the local territory, in partnership with Município de Odemira (Town Council).

We screened the film Antuca (1992, Peru), directed by María Barea with the Warmi Cine y Video collective, a pioneering group of Peruvian women filmmakers, in collaboration with Iprofoth (Instituto de Promoción y Formación de Trabajadoras del Hogar), a non-profit organisation dedicated to training migrant and indigenous domestic workers.

Between fiction and documentary, Antuca was written after years of collecting testimonies from domestic workers. Addressing issues such as migration, and discriminations based on gender, race and class, it is also a film about hope, struggle and solidarity between women — as one of the spectators said, ‘in the end she gets what she wanted: to be a free woman’. The film was recently restored at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola.

This initiative was programmed and organised by Doc’s Kingdom in partnership with Câmara Municipal de Odemira. The screening was followed by a conversation moderated by Sílvia das Fadas (founder and programmer of Cinema Fulgor).