To conclude the season of film screenings dedicated to Belgian-born director Agnès Varda, to celebrate her 60-year career, Spazju Kreattiv will present her 1977 film One Sings, The Other Doesn’t on Thursday at 7.30pm and Sunday at 6pm, and her 1985 film Vagabond on Saturday at 8.30pm.

Vagabond is an emotional, hard-hitting film that mixes fact with fiction to tell the story of Mona, a young and defiant drifter, a beautiful rebel without a cause, whose tragic story is a fine example of Varda’s ability to capture and reveal the sadness and sorrow of the human condition.

Sandrine Bonnaire, who won Best Actress César for her portrayal as Mona, captures the splintered portrait of this enigmatic woman through flashbacks of those who encountered her. The drama traces the last few days of the homeless drifter who, at the start of the film, is found dead in a ditch.

The films celebrate the 60-year career of Belgian-born film director Agnès Varda.

One Sings, The Other Doesn’t is a film that remains timeless in its themes of women struggling to claim agency over their bodies. Based on the different biographies of two female friends brought together during the struggle of the women’s movement in 1970s France, the women share their interests and intimate secrets, resulting in one helping the other to raise money for an abortion – “one is not born as a woman, one becomes one”.

The friendship at the centre of the film is beautifully constructed and deals with a subject that remains all too familiar with Varda, who was personally involved with the movement.

One Sings, The Other Doesn’t will be screened at St James Cavalier Cinema, Valletta, tomorrow at 7.30pm and on Sunday at 6pm. Vagabond will be screened on Saturday at 8.30pm. For tickets, visit www.kreattivita.org.

Sandrine Bonnaire won Best Actress César for her portrayal as Mona in Vagabond.