2024 Programming
CYCLE «AGAINST INVASIONS, PEACE AND JUSTICE»
This year we present our honorary award Peace and Justice to the Red Carpet Human Rights Film Festival, the first film and rights festival in Palestine, which advocates for culture as a pillar to defend identity and territory, as well as to move towards peace. Therefore, as a show of support for their people, we organized three screenings of films produced in Palestine.
Ghost hunting
Raed Andoni | Palestine | 2017 | 94'' | Arabic VOSE
Synopsis: Director Raed Andoni brings together an eclectic group of Palestinians to rebuild the Israeli research center where they had all been imprisoned. Award for Best Documentary at the Berlin Festival.
+ Discussion with producer Mohammed Shat and Palestinian actor Ramzi Maqdisi, protagonist of the film. Moderated by journalist Lola Bañón.
Friday 31 – 8:15 p.m.
The Film Library
tower
Mates Grorud | 2018 | France, Sweden, Norway | 74' | English VOSE
Synopsis: An award-winning animated gem for the whole family that takes us to Palestine to see, through the eyes of a girl, the difficult situation in which the country has been immersed for years.
+ Round table “What does it mean to grow up in a refugee camp?” with the Palestinian Mohammed Shat and the Saharawi defender Asria Mohamed. Moderated by journalist Germán Caballero.
Saturday 1 – 8pm
The Film Library
Omar
Hany Abu-Assad | Palestine | 2013 | 98' | Arabic VOSE
Synopsis: Omar is a young Palestinian who is used to dodging Israeli bullets to visit Nadia, his secret love. But when one day he is captured, a deadly game of cat and mouse begins. Prize Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.
+ Colloquium with one of the actors, Ramzi Maqdisi.
Sunday 2 – 8pm
The Film Library
We haven't forgotten Ukraine either! We complete our cycle with this projection:
20 Days in Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernovs | 2023 | Ukraine | 95' | English VOSE
Synopsis: A vivid and shocking account that shows what it is like to report from a conflict zone and the impact of war journalism around the world. Oscar winner for Best Documentary.
+ Colloquium with Pablo Gil, honorary consul of Ukraine in Valencia, and Vicent Montagud, journalist specialized in conflicts. Moderated by Majo Siscar, journalist and festival director.
Projection in collaboration with TolokArt.
Wednesday 5 – 8:15 p.m.
The Film Library
HUMANS FIC: Our selection of Fiction
Official competitive section on the best international fiction feature films that address the problems of climate change and the defense of the Valencian territory from different perspectives and with surprising narratives. A cinema to enjoy, connect and reflect!
Short films on human rights made by students will be projected in front of each feature film. This is the 1 MINUTE, 1 RIGHT award, where the public is the one who decides the winner. Watch them and vote!
Camping du lac
Eleanor Saintagnan | France | 2023 | 70′ | French, English VOSE
Synopsis: Éléonore drives west. His car breaks down in the middle of Brittany, France. There he rents a bungalow on a campsite overlooking a lake where, it is said, a legendary beast lives.
Friday 31 – 6pm
Babel Cinemas
Let the river flow
Ole Giæver | Norway | 2023 | 1″58′ | Norwegian, Saami VOSE
Synopsis: Ester moves to Alta, a municipality in northern Norway and hides her identity to avoid exposure to racism and work as a teacher. Suddenly, He is in the middle of the demonstrations against the construction of a large dam in Alta and will begin a personal journey to get out of the shame he has carried for so long. Considered the best Norwegian Goya film that brings to life the moving struggle of the Sami people.
Saturday 1 – 6pm
Babel Cinemas
How to Blow up a Pipeline
Daniel Goldhaber | USA | 2022 | 1″44' | English VOSE
Synopsis: A group of young environmental activists plan to destroy an oil pipeline in West Texas in a radical and desperate call for action in the face of intensifying climate change.
Monday 3 – 8 p.m.
+ Colloquium – Babel Cinemas
snow leopard
Pema Tseden | China|2022| 1″49'|Tibetan, Chinese VOSE
Synopsis: A father and son argue over whether or not they should kill a snow leopard that entered their house and killed nine sheep.
Wednesdays 5 – 10 p.m.
Babel Cinemas
Red rooster
Enrique García-Vázquez | Spain | 2023 | 84' | Spanish VOSE
Synopsis: Enrique García-Vázquez's feature debut offers a moving vision of rural depopulation in Spain, highlighting the desire to return and reconnect with roots. Recognized for his talent, his film captivates the Seminci selection committee.
Thursday 6 – 8 p.m.
+ Colloquium – Babel Cinemas
With self-description and interpretation in sign language
HUMANS DOC: our documentary selection
Official competitive section on the best international fiction feature films that address the problems of climate change and the defense of the Valencian territory from different perspectives and with surprising narratives. A cinema to enjoy, connect and reflect!
Desert PHOSfate
Mohamed Sleiman Labat | Western Sahara, Finland | 2023 | 60' | Arabic and English VOSE
Synopsis: Trace the history of phosphate, exploring overlapping narratives of displaced sand particles, plants, people, and minerals. The film explores ways of telling realities, metaphors and poetics in the desert. It highlights the connections between ecological justice, colonial practices, environmental violence, traces of anthropocentric mineral extractions, and the loss of indigenous ways of knowing and telling the world.
Sunday 2 – 6pm
+ Colloquium – Babel Cinemas
An inhabited volcano
José Victor Fuentes | David Pantaleon | Spain | 2023 | 63' | Spanish VOSE
Synopsis: On September 19, 2021, after 50 years, a new volcano emerged on the island of La Palma. During the months of the eruption, a group of childhood friends shared audio messages in a common chat; a daily chronicle of astonishment and tragedy, far from the media story. “An Inhabited Volcano” is a collective portrait of the friendship and strength of the inhabitants of a land, who from time to time coexist with the hypnotic and devastating power of nature.
Sunday 2 – 8pm
Babel Cinemas
With self-description and sensory experience
Between The Rains
Andrew H. Brown and Moses Thuranira| Kenya | 2023 | 82' | Ng'aturkana VOSE
Synopsis:
In collaboration with the Turkana-Ngaremara community, it shows the story of a childhood rooted in traditional culture that faces the problems of climate change.
Tuesday 4 – 8pm
Babel Cinemas
The White Guard
Julie Elien | Canada | 2023 | 109′ | Spanish VOSE
Synopsis: Mexico, a country mired in necropolitics: The film explores the mutually beneficial relationship between large corporations, the government and the cartels that are killing more and more activists.
Thursday 6 – 10pm
Babel Cinemas
Premiere in Spain
Breathe Mom
Meri Collazos Solá | Spain | 2024 | 70' | English VOSE
Synopsis: The documentary is about the story of Meri and her daughter Nina, who suffers from an Alpha1 genetic deficiency, a genetic rarity that leaves her unprotected from any polluting air. In her fight for clean air, Meri meets families with the same problem. Together they discover shocking truths and face the consequences of Dieselgate, gene editing and the pandemic. Will there be hope for their children?
Friday 7 – 8pm +
Colloquium – Babel Cinemas
With sign language interpretation
CURT I BARREJAT: Our selection of short films
SESSION 1
Monday 3 – From 5pm to 8pm
SGAE Center Cultural Room
AGUR ARTZAI
Julien Zubiete | Spain | Documentary | 2023 | 25' | Spanish VOSE
DURIAN TREES
Shi Chin Cheun | Malaysia | Fiction | 2023 | 25' | Chinese VOSE
WHERE CHILDREN DON'T DREAM
Stefano Sbrulli | Peru, Italy | Documentary | 2022 | 20' | Spanish VOSE
TAHLEQUAH THE WHALE: A DANCE OF GRIEF
Daniel Kreizberg | Lithuania, USA| Documentary Animation | 2023 | 15' | English VOSE
THE SILENCE OF SONG
Alan Luna | Spain | Fiction | 2023 | 20' | Spanish VOSE
CASTING
Victor Devesa | Spain | Fiction | 2024 | 7' | Spanish VOSE
FIRST COIN
Anna Juesas | Sonia Sánchez | Spain | Fiction, Animation | 2023 | 6' | Spanish VOSE
SESSION 2
Tuesday 4 – From 5pm to 8pm
SGAE Center Cultural Room
DON BENJAMÍN
Iván Zahinos | Spain | Documentary | 2024 | 29' | Spanish VOSE
PUYUELO
Sara Sarrablo Asensio | Spain | Documentary | 2023 | 25' | English VOSE
WAN
Victor Monigote | Spain | Fiction, Animation | 2023 | 13' | No dialogue
TRENC D'ALBA
Ana Llargués | Spain | Fiction | 2023 | 28' | Catala VOSE
LION DREAMS
Jordi López Navarro | Spain | Fiction | 2023 | 10' | Another VOSE
LOCAL RISCALDAMENTO
Manuel Vitali | Italy | Fiction | 2022 | 8' | Italian VOSE
180 GRAUS
Dani Reina | Spain | Fiction | 2024 | 17' | Valencian, Spanish VOSE
SESSION 3 – With audio description
Wednesday 5 – From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
SGAE Center Cultural Room
HE MIRROR OF THE VALLEY
Alejandra Gómez Pinilla | Peru | Fiction | 2024| 24' | Spanish VOSE
PASSING TERUEL
Manuel Omonte | Spain | Fiction | 2023 | 23' | Spanish VOSE
THE FLOOR
Claudia García de Mateos | Spain | Documentary | 2024 | 18' | Spanish VOSE
GLASS, PAPER, ORGANIC
Almudena Vázquez | Spain | Fiction | 2022 | 4' | Spanish VOSE
NOT ALONE
Doriam Alonso | Spain | Fiction | 2023 | 25' | Spanish VOSE
TROLEIG
Luis E. Pérez Cuevas | Spain | Fiction | 2023 | 25' | Valencian VOSE
13
Mariam Zelaia | Spain | Fiction | 2022 | 22' | Valencian VOSE
HUMAN DEBATES
When the body dances, the mind forgets
La Cosecha Comunicación, Foundation for Justice | Valencia | 2024 | Castilian
In the Picassent prison, a group of inmates have organized to create a dance group led by a professional dancer. A place that they have turned into a family and a space of freedom. Because when the body dances, the mind forgets.
Documentary made by inmates of the Picassent prison + Colloquium
Tuesday 4 – 4pm
Rector Peset Residence Hall + Colloquium
Climate talks
Dialogue between two environmental disseminators to find out the answers to citizens' everyday questions about climate change and the challenges that dissemination projects have:
- Andreu Escriva, environmentalologist, writer and expert on climate change.
- Magda Bandera, director of La Marea magazine and editor of Climática.
- Pilar Almenar, journalist.
Tuesday 4 – 6:30 p.m.
Rector Peset Residence Hall + Colloquium
With interpretation and sign language
In collaboration with:
fast fashion and inequalities
Screening of DIRTY CLOTHES
Félix Zurita de Higes | Spain | 2021 | 48' | Castilian
A trip from Central America to the Valencian Country through fast and cheap fashion. While we consume seasonal fashion, in Central America women work in exhausting conditions, conditions not so different from those of the Valencian Country, where more than 700 textile companies have closed.
Subsequent discussion with ISCOD-UGT activists and shopkeepers from Elche.
Thursday 6 – 6:30 p.m.
Rector Peset Residence Hall + Colloquium
Sustainable cinema (limited capacity)
Session with specialists in sustainable filming who will talk to us about how to adapt the audiovisual sector to reduce the environmental impact of productions.
- Sixto Garcia, eco-manager and member of the Sustainability Commission of the Valencian Audiovisual Academy (AVAV).
- Jaime Fons, Spanish Network for Sustainable Development.
- Deborah Micheletti, producer.
Friday 7 – 11am
Rector Peset Residence Hall + Colloquium
Cameras and (climatic) action!
Participatory short films resulting from the documentary workshop organized by Humans Fest together with the Fundación por la Justicia with activists against climate change.
Friday 7 – 5pm
Rector Peset Residence Hall + Colloquium with the producers and protagonists
No Places
Elena Krause, Conxa Solano, Margaret Flaws, Roberta Callicó, Gabriel Lozano | Spain | 2024 | 05' | Castilian
Synopsis: Small portrait of a Valencia besieged, exhausted and blurred by that insatiable tourism that devours everything.
Move Horizontally
Marina Reig Vega, Andrés Ortiz, Sofía Val Corvera, Patricia Azpelicueta | Spain | 2024 | 03' | Castilian
Synopsis: Collective reflections of a space and time that is close, but at the same time strange, distant, changing. How we build identity based on the logic that builds the territory itself.
New Val 2075
Jaume Ferrando, Ruth Davia, Lydia Melia, José Octavio Toledo-Alcalde| Spain | 2024 | 06' | Castilian
Synopsis: Valencia, 2050. The world has continued with the current drift and through this fake documentary we can imagine what life would be like in the Cap i Casal in this not so distant future.
Ecosystems on trial.
International jurisprudence to defend the environment and human rights
In charge of Antonio Vercher Noguera, Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Chamber, Coordinator of Environment and Urban Planning, lawyer of the European Court of Justice.
Presents: Izabel Rigo Portocarrero, deputy director of the Public Law Area and academic coordinator of the Master's Degree in Environmental Law at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR).
Friday 7 – 6:30 p.m.
Rector Peset Residence Hall + Colloquium
HUMAN VERMUTHS
On Saturdays, come and have a vermouth for human rights!
MUVIMAS (MuVIM cafeteria)
SATURDAY 1 – AT 12PM
There is a future if we build it together
Conversation with activists who mobilize in our territory for the right to an environment, to healthy and habitable towns and cities:
- Let's take care of Benimaclet – EntreBarris València
- The Mataobras
- Biopleasant
- Valencian coordinator for the rational location of renewable energies
SATURDAY 8 – AT 12PM
Art for the climate: creators for a world in danger
Conversation with creators who value the environment through cinema, literature and podcasts:
- Luci Romero, writer
- Laura García Andreu, director of Sunday, Sunday and the podcast Velles
- Meri Collazos, director of Breathe, Mom
- Pablo Garrigós, journalist
FRESH CINEMA
SATURDAY 1 – AT 9:30 PM
NAZARETH NEIGHBORHOOD
Patio of Our Lady of the Forsaken School
(Calle del Parque de Nazaret, 82, Poblats Marítims, València)
Selection of short films out of competition
Thursday 6 – AT 9:30 PM
MAYOR GARDEN (EL SALER)
(Avinguda dels Pinars, 1, Pobles del Sud, Valencia)
RED ROOSTER Projection + Colloquium with the director
Friday the 7th – AT 9:30 PM
ORRIOLS NEIGHBORHOOD
(Orriols Hermitage Garden Square)
RED ROOSTER Projection + Colloquium with the director
PHOTO EXHIBITION
African activism against climate change
Jennifer Baitwamasa has been threatened, they have tried to arrest her and they accuse her of being a lesbian in a country where it is illegal to be one. “What if I'm scared? “No, I can’t be.” She is one of the activists against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline that the multinational Total Energies intends to impose along 1,443 kilometers between Uganda and Tanzania and that violates socio-environmental rights. The exhibition shows the first-person stories of activists and the environmental impact that changes the way the East African media usually looks.