Cinema Rediscovered: Señora de nadie (Nobody's Wife) 
This screening will feature descriptive subtitles
Leonor (Luisina Brando) is an upper-middle-class, committed housewife whose comfortable life falls apart when she learns of her husband’s infidelity.
With more fear than conviction, she sets out on a voyage of self-discovery. It is an act born of integrity, a refusal to live a lie, but as her encounters with family and economic institutions reinforce her social non-existence, it becomes a gesture of active resistance.
Made under the military regime, the story of Leonor’s move from a family home and a life centred on pleasing others to a desire to create a life outside “the system” was dangerously challenging to the symbolic order in place. Bemberg struggled for five years to get her script approved by censors, who saw her criticism extending from family to state, and Leonor as an emblem of rupture.
This screening will include a pre-recorded introduction by Amina Farley Yael, Cinema Mentiré.
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