Sally Potter (London, 1949) is in Barcelona as a guest of the International Women's Film Festival. On Saturday she presented a screening ofOrlando (1992) at the CCCB, and this Monday she participated in a round table with filmmakers Ulrike Ottinger and Paul B. Preciadowho have also directed films inspired by Virginia Woolf's classicPotter's is the best-known film version of the book, but while at the time the ambition of bringing to the screen the impossible story of a character spanning four centuries and undergoing a sex change was valued, today it is considered one of the great investigations into identity and gender in the history of cinema, a key work in historiography. queer.