Iciar Bollaín’s San Sebastián Entry ‘I Am Nevenka,’ About a Pioneering Spanish Sexual Harassment Case, Gets a Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent One of the most awaited of Spanish films in this year’s San Sebastian main competition, Iciar Bollain’s “I Am Nevenka,” has a trailer, shared in exclusivity with Variety.
Written with Isa Campo, a co-scribe on two San Sebastian Golden Shell winners, 2011’s “The Double Steps” and 2018’s “Between Two Waters,” and sold by Film Factory Entertainment, “I Am Nevenka” is inspired by true events: the case of Nevenka Fernández, a member of the Ponferrada City Council who in 2001 became the first woman in Spain to win a court case for sexual harassment against a high-ranking politician – her ex boyfriend and all-powerful Ponferrada mayor Ismael Alvárez.
She won, however, at a price, fighting her case almost on her own, in the face of the opposition of most of her colleagues and branded a social climber by the media, or a whore.
She ended up leaving Ponferrada for London. Much of which is seen in the trailer. Caught on set shooting “I Am Nevenka,” Bollaín told Variety that “I Am Nevenka” will turn on “the abuse of power, how it works with someone.
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