ABSTRACT
Iciar Bollain's cinematic works explore the ramifications of the shifts, paying particular attention to the emerging significance of immigrants and their interactions with native-born Spaniards; furthermore, her films also offer an intriguing perspective on the future of what one shall term "home-making" in Spain. This chapter argues that many members of Spain's younger generations of ideologically-committed women filmmakers have begun to broaden their perspective to explore multiple forms of difference: not simply of gender, but also of sexual orientation, of nationality, of ethnicity, of race, of religion, and of class. Bollain's fascinating films are certainly representative of this tendency; her works, along with those of other Spanish women filmmakers, writers, and artists, do indeed contribute to a larger ethical and aesthetic effort to, in effect, make all the difference in the world.
