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Las Lindas examines notions of 'feminity' The Iberodocs festival celebrating Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American factual filmmakers returns to Edinburgh Filmhouse for its fourth edition from May 10 to 14.

The festival will open with Ada For Mayor (Alcaldessa) - about activist Ada Colau's bid to become mayor of Barcelona. It will close with documentary about the wisdom of the elderly I'm Still Here (Sigo Aqui). In addition to the film screenings, there will also be a masterclass with Salamancan director Ricardo Íscar and an Editing Documentary Films workshop at Edinburgh College of Art, plus live music events.

Other films in the schedule include an exploration of Dennis Hopper's legacy in the Peruvian town of Chinchero, where he shot The Last Movie and essay film about feminity and expectations, The Pretty Ones (Las Lindas).

The films showing are:

Ada For Mayor (Alcaldessa) Rest In Peace Mr Hopper (Descanse En Paz, Mister...

Ada for MayorIt’s been an undoubtedly bizarre year in politics, and its effect in American culture is unavoidable and obvious, particularly in cinema. It’s not unusual that films which carry any sort of political themes play a larger role in the conversation whenever there is political uncertainty. What is unusual, however, is how an already highly politicized culture has become even more so to an extreme degree since our last presidential election. Even films with no political ambitions are being politicized. And while an abundance of debate and conversation is not inherently bad, there is a danger of losing focus in distinguishing between the conversations worth having and the ones that are not. 2016’s most commercially successful films were marketed, released, and were received in a way that was contextualized within our current contentious political framework. Yet it seems natural that audiences are eager to give films some...