Emilia

Emilia Pardo Bazán, one of the most eminent writers of Spanish  literature from the 19th and early 20th centuries, confronts the Royal Spanish Academy, whose exclusively male members won’t let her join the institution, and tries to convince them otherwise. This is the pretext for a film that combines fiction, interviews, archival material and the locations where she spent her life (A Coruña, Madrid, Paris...) in order to transcend the character and meet Emilia, a distinguished writer, but above all a woman who fought for the liberties in which she believed and a strong advocate of women’s rights in a difficult time. (Seminci - Valladolid International Film Festival)