Tânia Dinis, Paola Guzmán Figueroa and Beatriz Freire present their film performances at the Desbordamientos evening on Friday 5th June in the patio of the Luis Seoane Foundation.
The other expanded cinema activities in the 17th Mostra are on Thursday 4th, with Desbordamientos Sinais on Saturday 6th, boasting an inimitable closing ceremony by John Porter, “the king of Super 8”.
Desbordamientos take place in Fundación Luis Seoane. In the image, Morada aberta: onde o gesto cura (2025) de Tânia Dinis.
In the 17th (S8), the feminist perspective and the transmission of cultural heritage among women will take on a significant presence. We are dedicating the entire evening of Desbordamientos on Friday to this cause, with three performances by Tânia Dinis, Paola Guzmán Figueroa and Beatriz Freire. For a fleeting moment, the female filmmakers will transform the patio at the Luis Seoane Foundation into a universe packed with depth and textures, with overlaid screens, devices intervening, and their very own interaction during the projection.
TÂNIA DINIS: GUARDIANS OF KNOWLEDGE
Halfway between documentary and fiction, in Morada Aberta: Onde o Gesto Cura (2025) the Portuguese Tânia Dinis analyses illness and healing in the popular imagination, understanding healing not only to be a rite or word, but also a gesture, work, class, cultivation and an intimate relationship with nature. She contemplates activities passed down through generations, accompanying the day-to-day lives of women who are the guardians of ancestral knowledge connected to the land, the sea, and natural cycles; invisible gestures that sustain communities and keep unofficial forms of knowledge alive.
The work, whose international premiere is taking place at (S8), is arranged into three moments straddling different eras, atmospheres, and ways of being present. Using different languages and spaces, Dinis combines digital and analogue video projections with expanded cinema techniques, composing real-time images and turning each and every screening into a unique event.
Tânia Dinis, Morada aberta: onde o gesto cura (2025).
PAOLA GUZMÁN FIGUEROA: ENTANGLEMENT IN MEMORY
The work of the Colombian Paola Guzmán Figueroa explores the themes of intergenerational memory and feminist narratives, taking on board personal and collective experiences to reflect on identity, transculturality and the body as an archive. In Generational Traces (2025), she puts forward an immersive experience that explores the ritualistic nature of memory, care, and migration through four generations of women in her family.
Using three 16 mm projectors and a sound piece created by the Finnish artist Theo af Enehielm, the filmmaker literally entangles herself in the film, creating frames with her own hair. She thus constructs abstract studies that she intersperses with performative documentation of her family and filmed waterways as a means of connection, representing the oceans of her displacements and migrations. This is the first time the work can be seen in Spain.
Paola Guzmán Figueroa, Trazos Generacionales (2025).
BEATRIZ FREIRE: WOVEN CINEMA
Beatriz Freire has chosen (S8) for the world premiere of A texture map of Monnegre River (2026), in which the projection of a “woven” film is accompanied live by the artist working on her loom. The piece originated in an artistic research project by the Portuguese artist, created concerning the Monnegre River, in Alicante. In it, she puts forward a visual translation of textile notation, using weaving codes as the shooting script, where each frame corresponds to a crossing of warp and weft.
This textile/film experiment is the first film performance Freire is presenting at (S8), where she has already had the opportunity to project other pieces of hers in the Sinais section. Tânia Dinis has also been at the festival before, though it is Paola Guzmán’s first visit to the Mostra. The three of them are part of a generation of young visual artists who are transforming the avant-garde film scene with a feminist perspective and a solid commitment to performative creation in analogue format.
Beatriz Freire, A Texture Map of Monnegre River (2026).
THREE NIGHTS OF DESBORDAMIENTOS
The Desbordamientos nights are without a doubt one of the great attractions of (S8), with three consecutive dates, all at 11:30 p.m. at the Luis Seoane Foundation. They will begin on Thursday, 4th June with Desbordamientos Sinais, presenting the performance pieces created in Spain: Niño monaguillo y sus pecados (2024) by the Galician Pablo Agma; Descubro el rayo, tus ojos tiemblan (2026) by Guillermo Braga; and the sound and visual event by Los Caballos de Düsseldorf (LCDD), who will be providing live sound for their film Fifty, fifty (2025).
The last day of Desbordamientos will be on Saturday, 6th June, with a closing session given by John Porter, who will be presenting some of his acclaimed film performances such as Scanning 8 (2016) and Shootout with Rebecca (1983). The fact that the Canadian filmmaker deemed the king of Super 8 is at (S8) is an event in itself, and it will be a unique opportunity, since his films are not digitised and he himself describes this visit as his farewell to the international scene.
Shootout with Rebeca (1983), John Porter.
The 17th Mostra de Cinema Periférico is to be held in A Coruña between 2nd and 7th June, 2026. It can count on sponsorship from the Concellería de Cultura e Turismo do Concello da Coruña and the support Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais da Xunta de Galicia (Agadic), the Deputación da Coruña, the Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and the Fundación Luis Seoane.
