SELF-SUSTAINABLE • 2019
DIRECTOR: Elias Saez
COUNTRY: Argentina
RUNTIME: '76
SYNOPSIS: Faced with the terrifying disinterest of the rulers for reversing environmental destruction, citizen proposals for change and resistance grow in the world. In Argentina, social movements face giants of agro industry, mega mining and clearing, with concrete and effective actions. A local documentary filmmaker tracks this silent transition revolution and finds initiatives that could become a powerful network of change. Knowing them changes your consciousness and your way of living in the world. Can you modify yours? Challenge ourselves and create new good choices is the only possible way out.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Doc
FEATURE DOCS
CUCA, PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN
• 2019
DIRECTOR: Carlos Navarro
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '87
SYNOPSIS: "Cuca, Portrait of a Woman" is a non-fiction film about an 87-year-old woman from the Asturian town of Luanco. He has serious health problems but she faces life with optimism and joy, offering us a vital example.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Doc
FOUND VILLAGE • 2019
DIRECTOR: Ricardo Alonso Díaz
COUNTRY: Spain
RUNTIME: '75
SYNOPSIS: In the 19th century, coal mining developed in the Asturian basin producing a huge change in the landscape and life of the people. Armando Palacio Valdés, an Asturian realistic writer born in Entrialgo (Laviana), portrays in his work The Lost Village, the life and customs of the time in novel characters with an epic style.
We show the same places that appear in the novel and the change that is happening now, at the beginning of the 21st century, where we went from the industrial revolution of then to the current technological revolution.
NOMINATIONS:
• Best Feature Doc