We live intertwined with technologies that transform the way we love, fight, remember, and survive. Amid an hyperconnected world, digital life is no longer a reflection of the physical world: it is a space of power, conflict, and also of the future. In the fifth edition of the Docs Hedy Lamarr cycle, documentary cinema becomes a tool to reflect on contemporary forms of resistance, oppression, and social transformation through technology.
This year, three outdoor sessions take us to urgent scenarios and questions: how is a real-time war lived and documented, from the inside, with mobiles and social networks? How are gender-based violence in digital environments reproduced—and can they be fought? What role does artificial intelligence play in the promise (or threat) of digital immortality?
From the strip of a devastated Gaza, through bodies and screens hacked by cyberfeminism, to bots recreating deceased people with AI, this cycle invites us to confront a technological present that we often prefer not to see. But also to collectively imagine fairer, more critical, and empathetic futures.
The screenings of the Docs Hedy Lamarr 2025 cycle, free of charge and with a short pre-debate with an expert speaker, will take place outdoors at the Canòdrom’s Open Stands. Come, sit, think, and participate!
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Doors open at 21:00
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Presentation starts at 21:30
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Free access with prior registration.
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May 30, 21:30 | Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone
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Jamie Roberts and Yousef D. Hammash, UK, 2025, 59 min.
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Recommended age: +18
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Original version in English with Spanish subtitles
The opening session will take place on May 30 with the documentary “GAZA: HOW TO SURVIVE A WARZONE” (2024), directed by Jamie Roberts and Yousef D. Hammash. Through four young protagonists—a boy living in a tent, a girl who finds refuge on TikTok, an adolescent helping at a hospital, and a young mother in the midst of chaos—the film starkly and humanely portrays daily life under the fire of war. A direct and empathetic look that opens the debate on the role of technology and media in armed conflicts.
Presentation by Gàdor Luque, architect with extensive international experience (Netherlands, Japan, China, and Palestine). Between 2016 and 2020, she worked as an external consultant for UNRWA and Italian Cooperation associated with Studioazue, developing community projects in the West Bank and Gaza. One of these projects, the green terrace at the Women’s Center in the Shu’afat refugee camp (Jerusalem), received an honorable mention at the FAD CitytoCity 2018 awards.
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June 13, 21:30 | Cyberfeminisms in Short Format
The cycle continues with a session dedicated to cyberfeminist shorts, addressing digital violence and forms of female resistance in virtual environments. Four pieces from different countries and eras offer a critical perspective on gender, power, and technology dynamics:
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Petrified (Iuri Bermudes and Renata Weinberger, Brazil, 2024) – A horror short film that denounces both physical and digital sexual violence.
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A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century (VNS Matrix, Australia, 1991) – An iconic piece that claims technology as a space for feminist empowerment.
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In Your Face (Javier Marco, Spain, 2020) – An unsettling encounter between a victim of digital harassment and their aggressor.
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A Bitch Mutant Manifesto (Lukas Engelhardt, Netherlands, 2016) – A transgressive call to challenge norms and celebrate the freedom of mutant identities.
Presentation by Eva Cruells, psychologist and expert in feminist public policies, with a trajectory linked to the defense of women’s rights and digital justice. She currently coordinates projects on digital violence at Alia, where she leads the feminist line of care for digital violence and is a co-founder of Donestech, a research collective on cyberfeminism and technological sovereignty.
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June 27, 21:30 | Eternal You: Digital Immortality and Its Shadows
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Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck, Germany, 2024, 87 min.
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Recommended age: +18
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Original version in German with Catalan subtitles
The cycle will close with the documentary ETERNAL YOU (2024), directed by Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck. An unsettling and provocative proposal exploring the creation of digital replicas of deceased individuals. Through testimonies like Christi Angel’s, who holds conversations with her deceased boyfriend via artificial intelligence, the film addresses the growing business of digital immortality, while questioning the ethical, emotional, and social boundaries of this phenomenon.
Presentation by Judith Membrives, specialist in Human-Centered Design, who combines philosophy, communication, and technology to analyze the cognitive, ethical, and social impact of innovation. She works as a researcher at the UXLab of Barcelona Activa and collaborates as a lecturer in various master’s programs and universities, always with a critical and feminist perspective on technology.
