We are in crisis

SCREENINGS

Scenario:

Around you, the roads are deserted. The indiscriminate exploitation of resources has contaminated the waters and made the air unbreathable. The environmental catastrophe is imminent. You go up to the ruins of what until a little while ago seemed a flourishing industry and now is only another skeleton abandoned on waste land.

Films on the world in ruins.

Fantasmagoría

Juan Francisco González
Chile, France and Switzerland, 2022, 14’00’’

In the middle of Atacama Desert, vestiges of the last nitrate industry are found, while the residents witness the crash of an industry located in the driest place on Earth.

Terra Mater

Kantarama Gahigiri
Rwanda, Switzerland, 2023, 9’46’’

Technology and waste, in our lands, our systems, our bones. Wandering our spaces, she cannot help but wonder, where is the space for healing?

Valley Pride

Lukas Marxt
Austria, Germany, 2023, 15’00’’

Corporate agricultural production interests have been able to successfully cultivate and exploit this geological part of the Sonora desert through a gigantic irrigation system fed by the Colorado River, as well as the All-American Canal specifically engineered for this purpose and which attained notoriety through the Mexican migration movement.

Evil Seaweed

Antonin Peretjatko
France, 2022, 25’00’’

A scientist in yellow overalls is taking samples of green algae on a beach in Brittany. Lifting his mask, he suddenly drops down dead. There’s panic in the village – he’s not the first person to disappear, and the municipality suspects that toxic algae is the cause.