CAFx Women in the City

Join us for a film telling the unrecognized story of how a group of housewives, many of whom could neither read nor write, shaped the city of Seville. A warm and humorous documentary on how grassroots initiatives can make a city.

In the 1950s, many young families moved into the city’s newly built housing estates. The housewives, many of whom could neither read nor write, soon realized there was no public transport, no schools, no markets and no entertainment. Women and the City is a tribute to the women who set out to change this.

They campaigned for an expanded bus network and the construction of schools. Together they organized to keep drug dealers out of their neighbourhoods and to gain an education themselves. The film reveals how these women were systematically ignored yet, through countless grassroots initiatives, succeeded in improving their circumstances. Even today, the full extent of this generation’s contribution to the city remains largely unrecognized. Director Reyes Gallegos Rodríguez finally brings these remarkable women into the spotlight.