Ecozine Rural
Chimborazo
Spain, 7 min. 2022
Directo: Keila Cepeda
Chimborazo's ice pickers have long been subjected for years to the inclemency of the volcano, located in the Ecuadorian Andes. In exchange, they crush some of its ice to provide for their people. Nowadays, it would be an occupation on the verge of extinction if it wasn't for Baltazar Ushca, who despite of his age, walks to the Chimborazo glacier every day for hours to get large blocks of ice which he later sells in the nearest city.
Keila Cepeda
Ganado o desierto
Spain, 84 min. 2022
Director: Francisco Vaquero
Livestock are not the enemy. They are the key. The fight to reverse climate change is putting animals in the spotlight. The purpose of this documentary is to show the use of livestock for the regeneration of grasslands, soils, woodland and water. Good livestock management is shown in a real way as a solution for the restoration of ecosystems and rural economies.
Francisco José Vaquero
La part du rêve
France, 52 min. 2022
Director: Jean Froment
A few years ago, Letizia, a young goatherd, decided to settle on the land of her ancestors. In doing so, she frees herself from most of the economic and cultural constraints imposed by everyone, wherever they come from. Alone, tenacious, resistant and independent, she humbly invents an unusual and unruly path to take root in her land of Corsica. Unfortunately for her, her sheepfold is located in the territory of Balagne, on the edge of housing estates and beaches. Thus, her dream becomes an act of resistance. Behind this endearing portrait there is the desire to live and change, perhaps not the world, but at least the daily life, to build an “horizon of meaning”.
Jean Froment
La piel de Marte
Spain, 22 min. 2022.
Director: Maite Redondo
Marte, accused of being a witch, is persecuted and condemned to the stake. Simultaneously, the perforated mountain continues to be emptied relentlessly. While the human body and the territory transmute in a violent way, voices of resistance rise up to defend and fabricate other worlds and their possibilities.
Maite Redondo
Maybe the Foot does
Poland, 14,32 min. 2022
Director: Pawel Nazaruk
Ánde Somby, a Sami Yorker and law professor from Tromso, Norway, has for all of his life been fighting for the right to express his "Saminess" despite the state's oppressive policy of Norwegianization.
Pawel Nazaruk
Quand les hirondelles s´en vont
Belgium, 18,56 min. 2022
Director: Sébastien Pins
In a small rural village, a young boy befriends Fernand and Andrée, a farmer couple who, at 80 years old, find themselves at trouble feeding their remaining livestock.
Sébastien Pins
Quixotes
Spain, 14 min. 2022
Director: Pablo Lozano
Climate change is forcing the installation of new green energies. The massive and disorderly development of wind energy is causing the death of thousands of birds. María and José Antonio, two naturalists, have decided to find out the truth and visit eleven mills every week that they have installed next to their town. The results are alarming, in 20 months more than 600 dead animals have been found between birds and bats. It's just the tip of the icebert. They are two Quixotes against giant windmills
Pablo Lozano Chavarría
Sew to say
United Kingdom, 69 min. 2022
Director: Rakel Aguirre
Sew to Say tells the story of Thalia, an artist and banner maker who in the early 80s became part of a women-only peace camp at Greenham Common to stand against nuclear weapons. The film looks back at the longest feminist protest in British history.
Rakel Aguirre
The Sprayer
Iran, 8,45 min. 2022
Director: Farnoosh Abedi
In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants, either in public or private. So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how does a plant grow or look like, until one day one of the soldiers finds a seed buried deep down in the dust and his curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary.
Farnoosh Abedi