Valentía, feminismo y resiliencia. La (in)visibilidad de la mujer musulmana a través del cine

Abstract

Cinema is an open window to the world around us. The different cinematographies get us close to and, at the same time, reveal for us highly diverse concerns and social realities. In this case, our investigation focuses on analysing the varied difficulties of the Muslim woman (their suffering in wars, defencelessness, loss of rights and freedom, harassment, abuse, resilience, etc.) in different countries and environments, through a series of selected films. Each and every one of these films gets into disclosing a feminine universe with a very important and crucial purpose: to raise awareness and alter the social inertia taking place in many countries. Cinema becomes, thus, a lever to historical change which, not only makes women visible (by showing their suffering), but also goes deep into stressing their essential prominence in all areas of life and the importance that education gains when bringing to life their own empowerment.