Members of the TECNOGEN project participated in the 46th International Congress organised by the Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies (ACIS), where they presented their latest findings. This edition was hosted by the Faculty of Philology of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) from 3 to 5 September 2025. The research team offered a panel entitled ‘Rebellious Perspectives: Forms of Political Participation in the Documentaries of Contemporary Spanish Female Directors.’ In addition, part of the pre-doctoral team presented specific papers on women's cinema, strangeness, intersectionality, and autoethnography.

PANEL: Rebellious perspectives. Forms of political participation in the documentaries of contemporary Spanish female directors

M. Isabel Menéndez Menéndez (University of Burgos) Feminist testimonial practice as a denunciation of sexual violence in Isabel Coixet's ‘El techo amarillo’.

Javier Moral Martín (Polytechnic University of Valencia) The sensory is political: phenomenological strategies in the documentaries of contemporary Spanish filmmakers

Awatef Ketiti (University of Valencia) The representation of female otherness in contexts of armed conflict in Spanish documentary cinema

Silvia Guillamón Carrasco (University of Valencia) and Jorge Belmonte Arocha (University of Valencia) Sex-gender diversity in documentaries by Spanish female directors: ‘Guerriller@s’ and ‘Alteritats’

Communications:

Alejandro Morala Girón (University of Valencia) Women's cinema and disconcert in 21st-century Spain

Frida Luis Maqueira (University of Valencia) The autoethnographic documentary as a space for identity construction: Gender, ethnicity and migration