I Am Nevenka

Name: I Am Nevenka
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: 2024
Duration: 112 min
Cast: Mireia Oriol, Urko Olazabal, Ricardo Gómez, Lucía Veiga, Font García

Icíar Bollaín20241h 52mBiography, Drama

Why we chose it

Until 2002, no politician in Spain had ever answered for sexual harassment, and Nevenka Fernández, a finance councillor in Ponferrada, was the first to accuse her own mayor. Icíar Bollaín tells it through her eyes, as the town that should have stood by her turns into a lynch mob.

Synopsis

In a town in northern Spain around the turn of the millennium, Nevenka Fernández, still in her twenties, becomes a councillor and catches the mayor’s eye. The harassment goes on for about a year. In September 2000 she resigns, and six months later she does the one thing the town will never forgive her for: she takes a powerful politician to court.