From the Earth to the Moon

Two films united by the shoreline, a place of mystery. Two coastal incursions. On the one hand, a community of women who catch seafood in Galicia. Somewhere else in the world, Vicky is a fisherman by day and a bar owner by night, while her dream as a boy was to be a radio soap opera star.

Three films showing that memory is a melodic incursion that knows only the past, is thought upon in the present, and projects itself into the future. In Angola, a rainy night brings about a deluge of doubts. Danielle Arbid goes from the childhood in Beirut to the exile in Paris, always passing by the heart. And the earth being drilled in the mines and bringing past radiation to present spectres.

In this session, we celebrate the resistance of the Ukrainian people. Today, by Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, the war where life becomes an everyday act of faith and sculptors art to hinder military escalation. From 1930, Dovzhenko’s Earth, a major film work. The winds keep blowing over the Ukrainian grain crops. Sunflowers keep seeking the Sun, but before that you have to plant and Vassily opposes the rich kulaks who try to collectivise the land.

Two films denouncing corrupt systems. In No Nation Without Culture, the family album contrasts with photographs hanging in the facades of Chechen institutions. An operatic film that proves that facades are just facades. In The Ordeal, law and justice are two even more distinct concepts. An elaborate and thorough process carried out by Zuzana Piussi.

Being born Brazilian but dying English is these boys’ proposal and challenge, given that dying with the best view can be a privilege for the few. In Tantura, you try to forget the unforgettable; no massacre can fall into oblivion. Between humour and horror, this is how we scrutinise the power of belonging in the world.