Sólo son peces
With delicate cinematography and excellent realization, this film illustrates the life in the Sahrawi refugee camps in the Algerian desert. With ingenuity and perseverance, armed with technical knowledge, three women, Teslem, Dehba and Jadija, create a fish farm that produces fresh fish miles away from the sea. In the middle of the desert, far away […]
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 […]