Section organized in collaboration with Cineclube de Compostela
A programme developed in collaboration with Cineclube Compostela, and which includes outstanding examples of ethnographic cinema, many of which have never been released in Galician cinemas. We will have different ethnographic pieces that offer different reflections of the notion of rurubanity in a programme coordinated by the art historian and programmer of the Cineclube, Julio Vilariño Cabezas.
as cidades e as Trocas
Wednesday, March 15 at 10.00 p.m. Teatro Principal
2014 | 138 min | Portugal
Directors: Luísa Homem, Pedro Pinho
Edition and cinematography: Pedro Pinho, Luísa Homem
Sound: Raquel Marques, Rita Hermínio
In 2008, the growing tourism industry of Cape Verde was frozen. The building of many hotels and resorts by foreign companies had to be stopped due to a shortage of sand. The sand industry, the primary resource for the production of concrete, had reached a dramatic level, endangering the beaches. This event caused a huge euphoria among the businessmen of Mauritania. A great number of trucks started to flow to the Nouakchott port, where many boats sailed out to feed the tourist constructions in Cape Verde. Trading Cities starts in Lisbon on a cargo ship. We will undertake an Atlantic route that re‐enacts these daily travels, in order to highlight the physical and social transformations in the landscape that these exchanges produce.
Al-Sandawich
Friday, March 17 at 8.30 p.m. Numax
1975 I 12 min I Egypt
Director: Atteyat Al Abnoudy
Edition: Ateyyat El-Abnoudy, Magdi Kamel
Cinematography: Maher Radi
Sound: Magdi Kamel
In the village of Abnoud, children play and prepare a meal. Atteyat al-Abnoudi films the joy and simplicity of the daily life of a small rural town that seems to have escaped the passage of time.
The Conwy Crossing
Friday, March 17 at 8.30 p.m. Numax
1991 | 39 min | United Kingdom
Directors: Stephen Hewitt, David Shaw
Cinematography: John Lawson Reay
Sound: Barbara Lawson Reay
Music: Nigel Bells
Reporter: Timothy Evans
Built in 1991, the longest tunnel in all of Wales, which carries the road under the River Conwy, was the first of its kind in the UK. The work, which cost more than £140 million, was promoted by the government as “a new link in a golden chain” of a road network to ensure the prosperity of North Wales.
Guías turísticas satánicas: Polígono de Coia
Friday, March 17 at 8.30 p.m. Numax
2013 | 9 min | Galicia
Director: Vicisitud y Sordidez
Accompanied by his parents, the author walks through the Vigo neighborhood of Coia, an example of Franco’s urban planning of the late 1960s that combines the brutalism of the blocks of buildings with the traces of rural remains and the insertion around them on the city’s ring road. The conversation between them chronicles the political, urban and human evolution of a neighborhood with a working-class and marginal reputation.
Contras’ City
Saturday, March 18 at 7.00 p.m. Museo do Pobo Galego (auditorium)
1969 | 22 min | Senegal
Director and screenwriter: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Edition: Jean-Bernard Bonis, Marino Rio
Cinematography: Georges Bracher
Sound and music: Djimbo Kouyaté
A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar as we hear the conversation between a Senegalese man (the director, Djibril Diop Mambéty) and a French woman, Inge Hirschnitz. As we travel through the city in a picturesque horse drawn wagon, we chaotically rush into this and that popular neighborhood of the capital, discovering contrast after contrast: A small African community waiting at the Church’s door, Muslims praying on the sidewalk, the Rococo architecture of the Government buildings, the modest stores of the craftsmen near the main market.
boca de lixo
Saturday, March 18 at 7.00 p.m. Museo do Pobo Galego (auditorium)
1993 | 45 min | Brasil
Director and screenwriter: Eduardo Coutinho
Edition: Pablo Pessanha, Thereza Tessouroun
Cinematography: Breno Silveira
Sound: Flavio Protasio Ceccon, Antonio Gomes
Music: Tim Rescala
Experimental documentary about the daily routine of poor people of Itaoca, São Gonçalo, state of Rio de Janeiro, who make a living out of revolving garbage.