Vilma Navarro-Daniels, professor of Spanish and film studies, presented her paper “Shifting Narratives of Age in New Chilean Cinema: The Case of Nicol Ruiz Benavides’s Forgotten Roads” at the MLA Annual Convention, held in New Orleans, Louisiana. In her presentation, Vilma argues that Ruiz Benavides reverts the mainstream representations of old women that reinforce the hegemonic discourse of ageing as decline. At the same time, Ruiz Benavides is one of several Latin American women filmmakers who are deconstructing the epistemological function of cinematic representations of the ageing female body which constitutes the basis of an ethical, social, and political attitude towards the processes of ageing and the ways our society gives meaning to such processes.