The Soviet Garden
While investigating his grandmother’s mysterious death, Dragos Turea, a filmmaker from the small, former Soviet country of Moldova, discovers a secret scientific experiment. Dragos unveils the secret plan of Nikita Khrushchev to transform Moldova into the “Soviet Garden” through the application of atomic energy in local agriculture to cause mutations in seeds and fruit, all […]
Understory
Understory is an extraordinary personal essay on a plant and all its cultural and economic ramifications: cacao. Traveling through Sao Tome and Principe, England and Brazil, the director walks between past and present, dismantling the schemes of European colonial oppression and investigating the possibilities of a fair exploitation of the plant. And in the various […]
Chão
Since 2015, the Landless Workers Movement has been occupying an indebted sugarcane factory’s land to press for its redistribution through land reform. Grandma, P. C. and their encamped fellows struggle to conquer a small share of land where they can settle down and live a self-sustainable life, growing agro-ecological crops in a newly knit peasant […]
