Special Event for the Opening of the River Film Festival 2026 at the Altinate Cultural Center | San Gaetano
Sunday 24 May – from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
The Centro Culturale Altinate San Gaetano, located at Via Altinate 71 in the heart of Padua, is one of the city’s most significant cultural venues. Its central location and easy accessibility make it an ideal place to host audiences, institutions, and cultural professionals, fostering exchange, participation, and visibility.
For the River Film Festival, San Gaetano also represents a space rich in meaning: in 2025, it hosted Veneto Agorà Cinema, a special event and the festival’s first audiovisual market, strengthening an important connection between RiFF and one of the city’s symbolic cultural landmarks.
SHE – a film by Parsifal Reparato
Voices and bodies of the women workers from the vast electronics industrial park in Vietnam, in Bac Ninh.
SHE is a collective narrative about the women workers of one of the largest electronics manufacturing plants in Vietnam, employing 80,000 workers.
80% of the core workforce is made up of women who have accepted 12-hour shifts, day and night. The workers’ bodies are revealed piece by piece, preserving the necessary anonymity that allows them to freely describe the working conditions imposed on each of them.
SHE is a mother, a daughter, a wife, single, migrant, and settled all at once. Each protagonist is different. Yet they are all connected by the exploitation they face every day, unable to fulfill their dreams in the painful struggle for their ambitions.
COOL CENTER AFRICAN VOICES
Empowering a new generation of African women filmmakers: an opportunity to turn their ideas into reality
The UNESCO–Tamayouz Cinema Foundation film residency offered ten talented African women filmmakers the opportunity to turn their ideas into reality.
Over the course of six weeks in Morocco, they learned, created, and collaborated to write, produce, and direct their own short films.
The African film industry represents a significant driver of economic growth, with the potential to generate over 20 billion dollars annually and create 20 million jobs, according to the UNESCO report The African Film Industry: trends, challenges and opportunities for growth (2021).
Yet women remain strongly underrepresented in key creative and decision-making roles. This UNESCO residency helps reduce that gap by creating a space where women’s artistic voices can grow, connect, and pave the way for a more inclusive and diverse African cinema.
Lamia Chraïbi is a Moroccan producer and the founder of LA PROD and Moon & Deal Films.
A member of Film Independent, the EAVE network, and ACE, Chraïbi established the Tamayouz Foundation to support Moroccan women in cinema through workshops, scholarships, and mentoring programs.
