ABORTION PARTY

Spain | 2025 | 14 min | col.| English

During an unfiltered monologue filled with irony, Julia Mellen recalls how, when she was twenty years old, she organized a party to celebrate her second abortion. She invited a preposterous number of friends and neighbours, drawing the hostility of moralists towards her. An irrepressible flow of words pours from an inner frame showing a close-up of the film director. At the same time, a 3D low-fi model shows us the story’s settings and characters: ironic details, quotations, and surreal situations. With a free-wheeling approach to storytelling, the film offers a candid narrative on abortion defying woke conventions and championing the vital carefree spirit of being twenty. This is a critical voice that does not lose its lightness, even as, in the background, the US undergoes an involution in the reproductive rights of women, and inequalities and marginality are on the rise. A provocative, political, amusing film and a gesture of love towards that Julia of the past who chose not to feel ashamed. (M.M.)