SPECIAL SCREENINGS

OPENING FILM

FRIDAY, 28th OCT | 17:30

LUZZU

Alex Camilleri

Country: Malta / Estados Unidos
Year: 2021
Duration: 94 min.
Original language: Maltese (subtitles in Galician)

Jesmark, a Maltese fisherman, faces a new waterway in his luzzu, the traditional wooden boat used in the archipelago. The boat is barely enough to survive and Jesmark sees his livelihood and a generations-old family tradition endangered by reduced fishing, a ruthless fishing industry and a stagnant ecosystem. Desperate to support his wife and baby, who needs special medical treatment, Jesmark becomes involved in an illegal black market fishing ring.

PROA SECTION. Focus on human impact on marine fauna

PROA I - FRIDAY, 28th OCT | 20:00

FROM THE WILD SEA

Robin Petré

Country: Dinamarca
Year: 2021
Duration: 78 min.
Original version: English (subtitles in Galician)

As winter approaches, a European volunteer network of marine animal rescuers is preparing for the hard season. Day and night, during the whole year, they work tirelessly to rescue coastal wildlife from life-threatening elements: oil, plastic, harsh conditions. But the worst is yet to come. Climate change is fuelling the violence of storms. At the same time, wild animals fight the human environment with fangs and claws.
PROA II - MONDAY, 31st OCT | 17:00

LAST OF THE RIGHT WHALES

Nadine Pequeneza

Country: Canadá
Year: 2021
Duration: 92 min.
Original language: English (subtitles in Galician)

North Atlantic right whales are dying faster than they can reproduce. These marine giants are no longer dying of natural causes, but are being run over by ships or fatally injured by fishing gear. With fewer than 400 individuals and only 90 breeding females, the species could be extinct in 20 years if we don’t act now. This is the story of a group of people – photographers, marine biologists, whale rescuers and fishermen – united to save the right whale.

POPA SECTION. Screenings of historical films

POPA - TUESDAY 1st NOV | 17:00

NANOOK OF THE NORTH

Robert J. Flaherty

Country: United States
Year: 1922
Duration: 79 min.
Original language: English (without dialogues)

Considered as one of the first feature-length documentaries in history, it aims to depict the daily life of the family of the Inuit Nanook (“Polar Bear”), as well as the harshness of living conditions in the frozen region of Nunavik, in the North of Canada. A nomadic life that depends on the skills of foraging and shelter building. However, many of the scenes are the result of representation and exoticisation. One hundred years after its release, the film continues to cause controversy for its depiction of the indigenous peoples of the region.

CAMPUS DO MAR SERIES

SATURDAY, 29th OCT | 17:00

DESAFÍOS DEL OCÉANO: CIENTÍFICAS AL MANDO

Campus do Mar

Country: Spain (Galicia)
Year: 2022
Duration: 15 - 17 min.
Original language: Spanish

  • Erosión Costeira, with Ana Bernabeu Tello (17 min.)
  • Sostibilidade da pesca, with Carmén González Sotelo (15 min.)
  • Microplásticos, with Lucía Viñas (16 min.)
Documentary mini-series of 6 episodes. A project of the Campus of International Excellence Campus do Mar led by the University of Vigo that was created with the aim of publicising the research being carried out by women scientists on current issues in marine sciences at a global level and which constitute future challenges for the oceans, the planet and humanity.

XX PRESTIGE’S ANNIVERSARY

MONDAY, 31st OCT | 19:00

NUNCA MÁIS: MAREA DE DIGNIDADE

SAGA TV / Nunca Máis

Country: Spain (Galicia)
Year: 2003
Duration: 27 min.
Original language: Galician

Documentary report that portrays, through the eyes of photojournalists and journalists from state and international media, the social and political climate in Galicia following the oil spill caused by the accident and subsequent sinking of the Prestige oil tanker in November 2002 off the Galician coast, which led to the creation of a civil platform under the name Nunca Máis. The movement spread all over the world and was able to embrace the demands of Galician society in a transversal and multitudinous way, unknown for many years in Galicia.

PERFORMANCE

MONDAY, 31st OCT | 21:00

URHO

Iván Torres and Alex Salgueiro

Country: Spain (Galicia)
Year: 2022
Duration: 30 min.
Original language: Finnish, Swedish, English, Russian (without dialogues)

Urho is making its way across a frozen Baltic Sea in the Gulf of Bothnia, between Finland and Sweden. Its wake disturbs everything in its path. A white landscape of silence is wounded by the need not to stop, even when nature asks us to. A metaphor for the flight forward in which we find ourselves.

A performative audio-visual project made with image and sound material recorded by the director Iván Torres during his stay on the Finnish icebreaker of the same name, and accompanied by the improvised synthesizer music of Alex Salgueiro.

CLOSING FILM

TUESDAY, 1st NOV | 19:00

SPITSBERGEN, O GARDIÁN DO ÁRTICO

Ignacio Benedeti Corzo

Country: Spain (Galicia)
Year: 2021
Duration: 81 min.
Original language: Galician

Documentary filmed entirely in Super-8 that, beyond the technical challenge, aims to be a wake-up call about the harmful consequences of climate change and global warming, through the adventures that the director experiences on board the icebreaker Malmö, such as following a bear and her cubs or recovering a camera accidentally submerged 140 metres below the surface. The work depicts the real threat caused by uncontrolled human activity, which leads to the melting of the Arctic.