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Program for the 11th edition of the Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil et du Val de Marne

April 2024

Ever since their creation, film festivals have worked to forge an international position by distributing advertising and informative materials outside their borders. For years, the exchange of catalogues with their counterparts was largely a matter of trade and diplomatic interests. That said, on occasions they have also served as a tool for conveying knowledge and building collaborative networks.

The San Sebastian Film Festival archive catalogue lists a plethora of these mechanisms: dating back to at least 1987, the Créteil International Women’s Film Festival would send its handbills to San Sebastian, in turn requesting information on the films produced by women in the country. The result of this exchange saw the ground-breaking participation in the French event of the first feature film directed by a female Basque filmmaker: having premiered in the Zabaltegi section, Ana Díez went on to compete with her film Ander eta Yul (1988) in the official selection of the eleventh Créteil Festival, also marking the first time that the Basque language had been heard on the screens of the French city.

The Créteil International Women’s Film Festival, founded in 1979 by professor Jackie Buet and Elisabeth Tréhard, at that time director of the Les Gémeaux cultural action centre, had been created to overcome the sparse figures of participation by women in the film industry, at the dawn of a despairingly narrow international context when it came to the appearance of women in programmes. Exploring the initiatives under way in other places, they learned that New York had held the first international festival of films by women in 1972 and that a union going by the name of Women in Film was supporting film production by means of partnerships and sponsorships. The only actions taken in the France of the day were those of the Musidora Association which, in 1974, had organised the first major gathering of films made by women at the Musée d’Art Moderne. The members of that feminist film group would join the San Sebastian Women’s Association in an advisory capacity on the programme of the first season of films made by women at the San Sebastian Festival in 1978, a year before Créteil came to be.

As can be seen in the handbill for the 1989 edition of the Créteil Festival, apart from Ana Díez and other competing names including those of Ulrike Ottinger, Barbara Trent and María Novaro, the programme featured two focuses dedicated to Delphine Seyrig and Liliana Cavani – who had participated in the San Sebastian Festival’s II International Meeting of Film Schools in 1961 with her short film La Battaglia – and a season dedicated to the films of the diaspora, going by the name of Images of Black Women, presented by Angela Davis, a leading light in the North American civil rights movement.

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Program for the 11th edition of the Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil et du Val de Marne

Identity statement area
ID: 41007
Catalogue number: AO1989.0497
Location: M05.B02.C06
Classification scheme: 4.4.3. International festivals
Title: Program for the 11th edition of the Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil et du Val de Marne
Date of creation: 1989
Level of description: Simple documentary unit
Extent and medium of the unit of description: 1 document

Context area
Producer: Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil et du Val de Marne

Content and structure area
Places: Créteil, France

Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access: Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction: Conditions governing reproduction

Control area
Preservation: Anna Ferrer, Andrea Sánchez
Cataloguing: Edurne Arocena (Ereiten)
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Program for the 11th edition of the Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil et du Val de Marne

Program for the 11th edition of the Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil et du Val de Marne (1989) San Sebastian Festival Archive. [+]

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Letter from Nicholas Ray to Joaquín Zabala (1965) San Sebastian Festival Archive. [+]

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Regulations of the II Cartago International Film Festival (1968) San Sebastian Festival Archive. [+]

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Letter from Josefina Molina to the Festival organisers (1978) San Sebastian Festival Archive [+]

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Letter from Diego Galán to film director Jafar Panahi (1998) San Sebastian Festival Archive. [+]

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Letter from Wolf Kochmann to Pilar Olascoaga on the death of Bette Davis (1989) San Sebastian Festival Archive. [+]

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Letter from Luis Buñuel to the Mayor of San Sebastián Antonio Vega de Seoane (1960) San Sebastian Festival Archive. [+]

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Letter sent by Antonio de Zulueta y Besson to the Cineclub Irún accepting to collaborate with them (1960) San Sebastian Festival Archive. [+]

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Letter from underground filmmaker Antoni Padrós to Pilar Olascoaga (1977) San Sebastian Festival Archive. [+]

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Survey on the Kursaal Centre (1993) San Sebastian Festival Archive. [+]

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Description of the piece “Lavabo” by Isabel Herguera and Mikel Arce Sagarduy (1983) San Sebastian Festival Archive

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Letter from Guadalupe Echevarria to Luis Gasca, director of the Festival, with the proposal for the creation of the Video Festival (1982) San Sebastian Festival Archive

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Letter from Alfredo Guevara, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Culture of Cuba and founder of ICAIC, to Luis Gasca, Secretary General of the Festival (1977) San Sebastian Festival Archive [+]

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HLetter sent by VALIE EXPORT to Festival Director Miguel de Echarri (1977) San Sebastian Festival Archive [+]

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Festival magazine’s special issue (1959) San Sebastian Festival Archive [+]

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Handwritten letter from Jean Cocteau to Antonio de Zulueta y Besson (1959) San Sebastian Festival Archive [+]

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ACommunication with the director Pierre Clémenti (1979-1980) San Sebastian Festival Archive. [+]

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Accreditation of Pilar Olascoaga to attend the 40th edition of the Berlinale (1990) San Sebastian Festival Archive. [+]

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Poster for the II Cinema Training Week (1955). San Sebastian Festival Archive. [+]

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Handwritten note by Pedro Almodóvar (1980) San Sebastian International Film Festival Archive [+]