Cinema about sustainable progress.
From October 5-11, 2022 (Madrid).
From October 5 to 11, 2022 you will be able to enjoy an impressive and hypnotic programming with a main theme about climate change and its consequences.
Along with the projections, a series of parallel activities are offered, such as; “Training for committed filmmakers: the perfect plan”, “Make your festival sustainable: Consultants at your disposal”, “ANOTHER HUERTO: Sow new values”, “Painting workshop for children: Winged life” and “Ecotopic dialogues”.
8th edition in person in MADRID and online throughout the Spanish territory through FILMIN and in its webpage.
In total, the program is made up of 34 titles divided into seven sections. These selected films deal with current issues such as climate change and its consequences, deforestation, the consequences of mass tourism, the loss of biodiversity and respect for sustainable values through the relationship between man and nature.
FESTIVAL SECTIONS
The OFFICIAL SECTION is made up of nine documentary feature films, seven of them previously unreleased in Spain, which are up for the Audience Award and the €2,500 Odyssey Award, awarded by the jury made up of Ana Torres, Product Manager at the distributor Elastic Films; Gimena Arensburg, programming director of Canal Odisea; and Javier Peña, environmental communicator, climate activist and founder of Hope!.
In the IMPACT SECTION films are recovered that, due to their great cultural interest and awareness, are shown again for the general public. There will be nine documentaries that will also compete for the Audience Award. Within this section, the screening, in collaboration with the DOCMA association and coinciding with the celebration of the Spanish Cinema Day on October 6, of the Spanish feature film Urak aske: eliminate prey , restore rivers with a script and direction by the Basque journalist Bego Zubia Gallastegi.
The contest section WHEEL FOR CHANGE (RXC), sponsored by SIGNUS Ecovalor (Collective Management System for End-of-Life Tires) has a national and an international category. The nine Spanish short films will be eligible for the Young Jury Prize with a prize money of €600. For this edition, the international competition is recovered, this time made up of seven risky and avant-garde shorts, from countries such as Peru, Ukraine, Kenya and Italy, the winning short film (the one with the most views) will receive €400. The international selection is available on the web and on the YouTube of the festival.
For its part, within the non-competitive sections, there is ORÍGENES. It is made up of three authentic luxury classic films that can be seen at the Filmoteca Española and will be presented by the film critic José Félix Collazos: Robinson Crusoe (1954) by Luis Buñuel, Moby Dick (1956) by John Huston and Tabu: A Story of the South (1931) Seas directed by F.W. Murnau.
Another of the non-competitive sections is PRODUCED IN GREEN, associated with one of the festival's activities (“Training for committed filmmakers”), although you can attend its screenings independently. It is made up of three films that have reduced their carbon footprint in their production, in addition to measuring CO2 emissions. They are Everything Will Change directed by Marten Persiel, L´Horizon by Emilie Carpentier, and In the Heights directed by Jon M. Chu.
SCHEDULE OF PROJECTIONS:
Wednesday, October 5
INVISIBLE DEMONS
by Rahul Jain
70 mins.
In a sprawling megacity where the dangers of climate change are visible, acclaimed filmmaker Rahul Jain shows a world on the brink of collapse.
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Thursday October 6
MATA
by Ingrid Fadnes & Fábio Nascimento
79 mins.
Mata is a documentary about the loss of species diversity, climate change, and the struggle of indigenous peoples and small farmers to preserve and defend the land they live on. MATA means both 'forest' and 'kill'.
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LAST DAYS AT SEA
by Venice Atienza
75 mins.
Reyboy, 12, will soon be leaving his home village of Karihatag to attend school in the city. He loves the sea, the constant sound of the waves in his ears and looking towards the horizon that stretches before his eyes.
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LE TOMBEAU DE L’AMIANTE: CHRONIQUE D’UN DÉSASTRE ANNONCÉ
by Nina Toussaint & Marie-Anne Mengeot
91 mins.
Thanks to the archives of the RTBF (Belgian TV) programs from 1977 to 2003, the focus is put on the crucial period of asbestos use in Belgium and in Europe.
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Friday October 7
ICARUS BALANCE (LA MESURE DES CHOSES)
by Patric Jean
90 mins.
Mediterranean, a real and fictional place at the same time. From where Icarus jumped and burned his wings. Where ocean liners, fishermen, migrants fleeing disasters, rescue workers, and scientists studying the consequences of global warming on the seafloor meet.
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OPHIR
by Alexandre Berman & Olivier Pollet
97 mins.
Ophir tells the story of an extraordinary revolution for life, land and culture, leading to the potential creation of the world's newest nation in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.
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URAK ASKE: ELIMINAR PRESAS, RESTAURAR RÍOS
by Bego Zubia Gallastegi
74 mins.
Release two million cubic meters of water to protect a small animal in danger of extinction. That has been the commitment of those who have worked to eliminate the Enobieta reservoir and who have guaranteed a safe haven for the Pyrenean muskrat.
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OSTROV – LOST ISLAND
by Svetlana Rodina & Laurent Stoop
93 mins.
The small town of Ostrov, a Russian island in the Caspian Sea, used to be a thriving paradise until a decline began in the 1990s that has it today as a place in ruins, without electricity and without hope.
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EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE
by Marten Persiel
92 mins.
In the year 2054, in a world that is surprised by photographs of giraffes and other missing animals, as if they were museum pieces, three friends embark on a learning journey in search of impossible answers.
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THE GREAT GREEN WALL
by Jared P. Scott
90 mins.
The effects of climate change in the African Sahel region are devastating: desertification, famine, conflict and migration.
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MOBY DICK
by John Huston
116 mins.
Captain Ahab (Gregory Peck) has a vendetta against Moby Dick, the great white whale responsible for cutting off his leg.
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SILENCE OF THE TIDES
by Pieter-Rim De Kroon
103 mins.
A poetic film about the world's largest tidal wetland, the Wadden Sea. The driving force of the film is the breath of the Frisian: the inhalation and exhalation of the tides.
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Sábado 8 de Octubre
ALL OF OUR HEARTBEATS ARE CONNECTED THROUGH EXPLODING STARS
by Jennifer Rainsford
77 mins.
Con el tsunami de 2011 como telón de fondo, All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars es una asombrosa odisea contada como un ensayo sobre la interconexión vital y sobre cómo los humanos y la naturaleza se reconstruyen después de un trauma.
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L’HORIZON
by Emilie Carpentier
88 mins.
Adja, 18, wants to take on the world but she doesn't know how yet. Her brother progresses as a soccer player, her best friend becomes an influencer and her mother is in Senegal, fighting to save her village.
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JUST ANIMALS
by Saila Kivelä & Vesa Kuosmanen
83 mins.
More than ten years ago, Saila openly confessed that she was part of the activist group that was secretly filming hundreds of animal farms.
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PLEISTOCENE PARK
by Luke Griswold Tergis
101 mins.
Without seeking anyone's help and without asking anyone's permission, Russian geophysicist Sergey Zimov and his son Nikita are rounding up as many animals as they can to transport them to the farthest corner of Siberia, no matter the price or hardship.
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TABU: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS
by F.W. Murnau
90 mins.
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas is a 1931 American silent film directed by F. W. Murnau.
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Sunday October 9
LA FAMILIA BIGFOOT
by Jeremy Degruson & Ben Stassen
96 mins.
Bigfoot, Adam's father, wants to use his fame for a good cause: protecting a nature reserve in Alaska.
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THE LAST TOURIST
by Tyson Sadler
101 mins.
Tourism is at a turning point. From the beaches of the Caribbean to the remote villages of Kenya, forgotten voices reveal the real conditions and consequences of one of the world's largest industries.
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CHICKENS, VIRUS AND US
by Filip Remunda
74 mins.
It is March 2020, the beginning of the pandemic. A Czech family travels to the countryside, accompanied by a cat and a stuffed bat.
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ASCENSION
by Jessica Kingdon
97 mins.
The documentary portrays capitalism in China at all levels of its operation, from the crudest mine to the most rarefied forms of leisure.
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ROBINSON CRUSOE
by Luis Buñuel
89 mins.
In 1659, Englishman Robinson Crusoe, the only survivor of a shipwreck, arrives on a desert island. After several years of solitude, he discovers that the island is inhabited by savages.
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Monday October 10
BIGGER THAN US
by Flore Vasseur
96 mins.
The film follows the journey of Melati Wijsen, who decides to go around the world to meet her peers, young activists like her, who have already made a huge impact in their fields thanks to their convictions and determination.
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THE TERRITORY
by Alex Pritz
97 mins.
In the heart of the Amazon jungle, a battle is being waged between the last members of the indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe and the farmers who, with President Bolsonaro at their back, are slowly devouring their protected territory.
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Tuesday, October 11
LAGUNARIA
by Giovanni Pellegrini
85 mins.
A voice speaks to us from the distant future of a vanished city, Venice, once among the most famous in the world. Did it ever exist?
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ACTIVITY PROGRAM:
TRAINING FOR COMMITTED FILMMAKERS: THE PERFECT PLAN
by Paloma Urrutia
420 mins. [Friday, October 7]
Designing a sustainability plan is already essential for any production, both for taking care of our planet and for the demands of the audiovisual industry.
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MAKE YOUR FESTIVAL SUSTAINABLE: CONSULTANTS AT YOUR DISPOSAL
by Débora Marques Fluxá, Roberto Campo Almeida & Sara Soloaga
60 mins. [Friday, October 7]
Do you want to be a more sustainable festival? Now the million dollar question: where to start? Doubts can be endless, so we want to put you in direct contact with consulting entities that offer to guide you step by step.
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ANOTHER GARDEN: SOWING NEW VALUES
by Anna Borrie & Colectivo El Bancal
180 mins. [Saturday October 8]
Do you want to learn how to create your own garden and do not know where to start? Having a garden is not an easy task: how to sow, how to plant, what seeds to use...
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PAINTING WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN: THE WINGED LIFE
by Mariela Mugnani
120 mins. [Saturday October 8]
It is a workshop aimed at boys and girls from 4 to 11 years old in which we will draw and paint to the sound of the songs of the birds that fly over our world, to familiarize ourselves with their image and their trill at the same time.
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ECOTOPIC DIALOGUES
by Mikelon Zuloaga, Miguel Brieva & Emma Gasco
90 mins. [Saturday October 8]
Ecotopias: Do, dream, visualize… To transform imaginaries. A space in collaboration with Greenpeace to share and reflect together.
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