Hail Mary: Motherhood on Page and Screen: Post-screening discussion with author and academic Katixa Agirre
Cambridge Film Festival, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council Leading Women project, Film and Screen, University of Cambridge and Peterhouse are delighted to invite you to ‘Hail Mary: Motherhood on Page and Screen’: a masterclass with author and academic Katixa Agirre and members of the Leading Women team on Friday 31st October 2025, 17:00-18:30 Peterhouse Lubbock Theatre, with a drinks reception to follow.
The masterclass will follow double-bill screenings of the feature-length film Salve Maria (Mar Coll, 2024; in Catalan/Spanish with English subtitles) and the short film Carmen of Carabanchel (Cecilia Bartolomé, 1965; in Spanish with English subtitles, courtesy of the Leading Women project).
The screening of Salve Maria is part of the Cambridge Film Festival.
It takes place at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse at 13:55, and is free for University of Cambridge students in the Film and Screen, Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics departments, and Peterhouse students.
Your pass for this masterclass will add you to the guest list for the film screening. Simply go to the delegate's desk in the Arts Picturehouse on the day of the screening.
Trigger warning: Salve María contains references to postpartum depression and psychosis, and harm to others.
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Katixa Agirre (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1981) is a Basque writer. She published the short story collections Sua falta zaigu (We Lack Fire) and Habitat, and is the author of numerous children’s books and the Amaia Lapitz saga for young adults. She published her first novel, Atertu arte itxaron (Wait Until It Clears Up), in 2015 . Her novel Amek ez dute (Mothers Don’t, 2018) has been published in ten languages and was adapted for the screen by Catalan director Mar Coll as Salve Maria (2024).
She has a PhD in Audio-visual Communication and lectures at the University of the Basque Country.