International

Tuesday, March 29 at 6.30 p.m. Teatro Principal

2021 | 22′ | Spain

Marina Lameiro, Maddi Barber 

Two men measure the heights of pine trees. A woman listens to what the trees are saying. The children of the village set up the camp.  A cloud of digital dots reveals the forest. The pines have said that we can ask. They always called this place “Paraíso”. Machines will come soon.

Tuesday, March 29 at 6.30 p.m. Teatro Principal

[Premiere in Galicia]

2021 | 30′ | Spain/Colombia

León Siminiani

In 2018, a group of filmmakers, calling themselves THE MOTIONLESS, embarks on an essay film about a hypothetical stillness syndrome in the Republic of Colombia. For this purpose, they invite Luis Ospina, master of the Colombian documentary, the presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, and writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez to give them clues with which to delve into the history, geography and idiosyncrasy of Colombia, a country that, paradoxically, is not motionless at all. For unknown reasons, the project is never finished.

Wednesday, March 30 at 5 p.m. Museo do Pobo

[Premiere in Spain]

2020 | 59’ | France

Frédéric Mainçon

At the Palais de Tokyo, a major Parisian modern art center, security agents watch over the artworks, and frisk and screen the visitors. What do they notice? What are they thinking?

Wednesday, March 30 at 6.30 p.m. Teatro Principal

[Premiere in Spain]

2019 | 54’ | Georgia

Maka Gogaladze

2The fast and radical changes brought by the collapse of the Soviet Union in my city (Tbilisi, capital of Georgia) were followed by a fire at my home. All my memories vanishing away led me to alienation. Carrying my camera and going through the burned remains of my home-place, through the old spaces around my neighborhood, through everything that refers to my childhood and survived, I try to bring together the artifacts of my personal history and preserve my memory, which reflects the collective emotional memory of Georgia”, Maka Gogaladze.

Wednesday, March 30 at 7 p.m. Museo do Pobo

2021 | 73’ | Germany

Benjamin Rost

A documentary about Margot Dias (Germany, 1908 – Portugal, 2001), an ethnologist who shot between 1958-61 among the Makonde tribe, at Mueda, Mozambique. The film is an inner journey that will gradually unravel the circumstances in which these original filming were made, during the period of Portuguese domination of Mozambique, based on Margot Dias’ unpublished diary and other texts and sounds, from archives related to the colonial period. But it’s also these materials’ confrontation with the people we are meeting on the trip to Mozambique, to whom we want to return part of its history.

Wednesday, March 30 at 8 p.m. NUMAX

2021 | 75’ | Spain

Marciá Florit

Pedra pàtria (Homeland Stone) is an autobiographical reflection on Menorcan identity. Based on a collection of letters, Macià, a filmmaker who lives in the city, delves into the personal history and sublime landscapes of Menorca that he shares with his younger brother, Lau, who decided to become a peasant on the island where they were born.

Thursday, March 31 at 6.30 p.m. Teatro Principal

[Premiere in Spain]

2021 | 72′ | Ucraine

Eva Neymann 

The film documents the life of one of the oldest and largest European markets. Passion on both sides of the counter, the dreams of the loaders, the hidden fantasies of the fish sellers… Security guards and flea market managers share their thoughts about the universe and the meaning of life. The past, the present, the future, and Romani fortune tellers, “the most precise weight” and generous portions on trial. All social classes are represented and find their place at Pryvoz. They are exposed and revealed! Everybody comes here, and everyone finds something for them. Those who seek for miracles and metamorphoses of destiny, the human soul, and time will not leave empty-handed.

Thursday, March 31 at 7 p.m. Museo do Pobo

[Premiere in Spain]

2021 | 106’ | Brasil

Thiago B. Mendonça

A group of São Paulo’s musicians on their most cruel and lyrical side: the world of unknown black composers who dream of happening at night and finding recognition as artists. The film follows the short hours into the night of this samba’s group of young people, who spend the day working in precarious services and in the early hours of the night seek a path in the world of music.

Thursday, March 31 at 10 p.m. NUMAX

[Premiere in Spain]

2021 | 79′ | Perú

Jimmy Valdivieso

Five stories about dignity in the capital of Peru: A local leader looking for someone to take over and carry on her complex work; a tourist guide who specializes in architectural heritage and Creole music; an ex-con rescued by the evangelical church; a teenaged dancer of Afro-Peruvian music who is forced to emigrate; and a fine arts muralist, the son of Andean migrants, all trying to get ahead in Barrios Altos, the most feared ─ but also most loved ─ historic neighborhood of Lima.

Friday, April 1 at 6 p.m. NUMAX

[Premiere in Galicia]

2020 | 73’ | Germany / Austria

Roser Corella 

The film chronicles the dire reality of foreign domestic workers in Middle Eastern countries such as Lebanon. By combining a multitude of perspectives, it offers intimate insights into the private lives of employers, agents and maids. From the legal framework that creates a structure of power and control that is conducive to corruption and abuse, analysing the architectural patterns of the city founded on racism, to the private sphere of the house that serves to reproduce a patriarchal system that discriminates against Lebanese women and which in turn undermines the rights of foreign domestic workers in the household. Exposing modern forms of slavery, it also reflects on the role of women and domestic work at large in capitalist societies.

Friday, April 1 at 10 p.m. Teatro Principal

[Premier]

2021 | 68’ | India

Thomas George

Dancers in the vortex is a documentary based on the lives of labourers who work in the well of death. The labourers travel to different destinations to construct the setup of well of death and eventually they performs in the same. The documentary tries to follow these travels by attempting to understand the lives of each workers , their preparations and training before the performance , risks associated with the performance and their physical efforts, their personal journey and politics and also on how they figure out basic resources and necessities during these travels.

Detalle: Deste documental puidose ver un avance no festival Play-Doc de Tui e tivo a súa estrea durante Cineuropa en Santiago de Compostela. Esta será a terceira vez que se poderá ver na cidade A poeta analfabeta.