Among the awaited of Spanish films on this 12 months’s San Sebastian foremost opponents, Iciar Bollain’s “I Am Nevenka,” has a trailer, shared in exclusivity with Choice.
Written with Isa Campo, a co-scribe on two San Sebastian Golden Shell winners, 2011’s “The Double Steps” and 2018’s “Between Two Waters,” and purchased by Film Manufacturing facility Leisure, “I Am Nevenka” is impressed by true events: the case of Nevenka Fernández, a member of the Ponferrada Metropolis Council who in 2001 grew to turn into the first girl in Spain to win a courtroom case for sexual harassment in opposition to a high-ranking politician – her ex boyfriend and all-powerful Ponferrada mayor Ismael Alvárez.
She gained, nonetheless, at a worth, stopping her case almost on her private, throughout the face of the opposition of most of her colleagues and branded a social climber by the media, or a whore. She ended up leaving Ponferrada for London.
Plenty of which is seen throughout the trailer. Caught on set capturing “I Am Nevenka,” Bollaín instructed Choice that “I Am Nevenka” will activate “the abuse of power, the best way it really works with someone. When the abuser paralyses that particular person, renders that particular person defenceless.”
The trailer catches bodily abuse – Álvarez’s attempt to grope Fernández beneath a desk – and psychological manipulation, as he confronts her on the road with an age-old accusation made by males about women, addressing her like a child with the diminutive Quenca and accusing her, as is males’s wont, of shedding her psychological bearings.
“You’re so silly, Quenca, and so childish. Stop this bullshit, you’re so bitter,” Alvárez reproaches her.
“Bullying happens on account of others say nothing,” Bollaín instructed Choice on set. So in “I Am Nevenka” “your whole milieu” is part of the sexual harassment, “one different half,” she added.
Tellingly in plenty of trailer images, Fernández stands alone. Usually, a scene’s precise protagonists are throughout the background, akin to throughout the understanding, near-smirking response images of Fernández’s colleagues when she is named a councillor, and given two of the plum posts on the Council: Treasury and Commerce.
“I Am Nevenka” is produced by Movistar Plus+ and Kowalski Films and Feelgood Media, forming part of the earlier’s energetic drive into auteurist event movement photos, tapping just a few of probably the most attention-grabbing directors in Spain.
“‘The Nevenka Case,’ because it’s often called, occurred 20 years previously. As Nevenka battles for justice, her sense of private identification and, most significantly she stresses, dignity, there’s a strong sense, that the film, as all films, is being made with one eye on the present.
“What would you say to women who’re going by the use of the an identical as you,” a reporter asks Nevenka as she comes out of the courtroom. “Don’t be silent! Converse out!” she replies.
27 women have died from gender violence in Spain this 2024. “I Am Nevenka” pays tribute to a woman who was brave ample to speak out at a time when it was almost inconceivable in Spain.
I Am Nevenka
Copyright: David Herranz
