International

RIADA

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, AT 5.30 P.M. MUSEO DO POBO GALEGO (ALA SUR)

Tickets: Vivetix and the day of the projection from an hour before in the reception of the Museo.

Carlos Tobón

Colombia, 2022

100 min. OVS

[Premiere in Spain]

By moving through the river waterways in the Hidroituango dam’s influence area and interviewing peasants, gold panners, and fishermen, Riada is an ethnographic inquiry into the aftermath of such a massive landscape alteration. Finished on the verge of the dam’s inauguration date, this 100-minute journey poetically navigates over thirty years of communities’ battles by connecting the survivor’s raw oral stories and the harrowing landscape in three acts: swirls, debris, and mutations.

FLOTACIJA

THURSDAY, MARCH 21, AT 5.00 P.M. MUSEO DO POBO GALEGO (AUDITORIUM)

Tickets: Vivetix and the day of the projection from an hour before in the reception of the Museo.

Eluned Zoe Aiano, Alesandra Tatić

Serbia, 2023

77 min. OVSGAL

[Premiere in Spain]

In Eastern Serbia, in a town with a dual identity divided between magic and industry, a family whose destiny is extrinsically linked with both does their best to ensure the survival of their traditions and their future generations. Lifelong miner Dragan Markovic is the last in a line of dragon hunters, while his sister Desa is the widow of the union leader who is trying to continue his legacy by fighting for the rights of fellow mine-worker families. 

Trailer – Flotacija

TAXIBOL

THURSDAY, MARCH 21, AT 7.30 P.M. MUSEO DO POBO GALEGO (ALA SUR)

Tickets: Vivetix and the day of the projection from an hour before in the reception of the Museo.

Tommaso Santambrogio

Italy, 2023

50 min. OVSES

[Premiere in Galicia]

Driving around the streets of Cuba, Lav Diaz – the famous Filipino director – and Gustavo Flecha – a talkative Cuban taxi driver – find themselves discussing about politics, migration, social conditions and love; touching many personal stories and experiences, they create an historical affresco of the conditions of their own countries.

Trailer – Taxibol

ONDE FICA ESTA RUA?

THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 10.00 P.M. SALÓN TEATRO

Tickets: in the Zone C (Cultural Information Point), and in the Teatro Principal the day of the projection from an hour before. 

João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata

Portugal, 2022

88 min. OVSES

[Premiere in Galicia]

From our window one can see a set of the film “The Green Years”, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This was our starting point: guided by Rocha’s gaze, we look back at the places of that film. The successive geological, urbanistic and social strata of Lisbon, besieged by the pandemic that interrupted the shooting, are drawn out in front of our camera, like a contemporary jazz improvisation from a score written in 1963.

WITH LOVE, STELA

FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 5.30 P.M. MUSEO DO POBO GALEGO (ALA SUR)

Tickets: Vivetix and the day of the projection from an hour before in the reception of the Museo.

Stela Roxana Pascal

Moldova, 2023

53 min. OVSGAL

[World premiere]

Stela is a transgender girl from Moldova who is going trough her transition alone. For that matter she wrote a letter to herself from the future to assure herself that things will go for the better and prevent herself from a suicide.

SEW TO SAY

FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 7.00 P.M. MUSEO DO POBO GALEGO (AUDITORIUM)

Tickets: Vivetix and the day of the projection from an hour before in the reception of the Museo.

Rakel Aguirre

United Kingdom, 2023

69 min. VOSE

[Premiere in Galicia]

Thalia is an artist and banner maker who, in the early 80s, joined a women-only peace camp to stand against nuclear weapons through non-violent action. She shares the untold story of the longest feminist protest in British history and reflects on how collective action changed the lives of thousands of women inspiring several generations.

Trailer – Sew to Say

GUARDIANS OF THE FLAME

FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 7.30 P.M. MUSEO DO POBO GALEGO (ALA SUR)

Tickets: Vivetix and the day of the projection from an hour before in the reception of the Museo.

Daniel Wolff

USA, 2023

67 min. OVSES

[Premiere in Spain]

Undeterred by decades of prejudice, post-Katrina neglect, and ongoing appropriation of their traditions, define what Black masking culture means in New Orleans today. Initiated and filmed by the celebrated Oscar winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme, the film was shot over the course of 15 years documenting the artistry and activism of three generations of the Harrison family of New Orleans.

Trailer – Guardians of the Flame 

西昆 (LIFE AND DEATH IN XIKUN)

SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 5.30 P.M. MUSEO DO POBO GALEGO (ALA SUR)

Tickets: Vivetix and the day of the projection from an hour before in the reception of the Museo.

Jiandong Huang

China, 2023

88 min. OVSGAL

[Premiere in Spain]

Kong Qingping, a 73rd generation grandson of Confucius, is invited to return to his ancestral farming village as the Secretary of the Party branch to lead the community towards economic wealth. His development plans for this mountainous area of eastern China are unexpectedly thwarted by a century old lawsuit that rises to the surface, reigniting conflict between ethnic groups. This documentary offers a portrait of the agricultural and emotional struggles countryside villagers confront as China drastically changes with modernity.

EL SIGNO VACÍO

SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 10.00 P.M. TEATRO PRINCIPAL

Tickets: in the Zone C (Cultural Information Point), and in the Teatro Principal the day of the projection from an hour before. 

Kathryn Ramey

USA / Puerto Rico, 2023

75 min. OV

[Premiere in Galicia]

Mixing a hundred years of found footage – tourism, agricultural and propaganda films – with contemporary portraits of artists and activists this film is a journey through the complex layers of the United States’ occupation of Puerto Rico. Using an experimental and ethnographic approach the film reveals how carefully crafted American fictions of “democracy” and “debt” obscure a capitalist and military domination.

Trailer – El Signo Vacío