About Home shows what happen when people live more than 60 years in a refugee camp. The film goes inside the intimate life of a Palestinan familiy to show their thoughts, desires and contradictions after more than half a century living in Lebanon as a refugees. About Home explores the meaning of living in stand-by in an atmosphere of hate, violence and arms. Small clockwork bombs inhabiting a compulsive country.
Resistencia
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Antonio's story is one among the many stories of a person trying to survive the gentrification of El Raval, a traditionally working class neighbourhood in the centre of Barcelona. Antonio makes ends meet by recycling his finds and swapping things, while also giving things away to people who are in need, the homeless, poor people and migrants... all in all, he is a small focus of resistance to the ruthless capitalism that is slowly taking control of our lives.
UntitledJune 2013. A group of 800 people illegally occupy a former movie theatre in Barcelona in order to screen a documentary. Once they are in, they rename the building after a girl who committed suicide in 2011. It becomes ‘Cinema Patricia Heras’. Who was Patricia? Why did she kill herself? And above all, what role did Barcelona play in her death? That is precisely what this documentary and the strongly symbolic squatting action seeks to bring to light: through Patricia’s story, they reveal the dark side of Barcelona: The Dead City.
UntitledThe clash between the State and the social movements in Spain in 2011 laid bare the true nature of power. The police crackdown was a response to the largest protest to date. Three hundred thousand demonstrators were faced with the most violent side of democracy. Using images of these events taken from various sources, this film reflects on democracy, power and its symbols, the role of the media and violence, as well as questioning the language of film and the scope of its possibilities.
UntitledFebruary 2003 Iraq. More than 300 people arrived in Baghdad to try to stop the war. They went there as human shields, placing themselves in strategic spots to prevent them from being bombed, but negotiations with Saddam Hussein’s regime did not turn out as they had hoped they would. A human shield diary shows the great disparities between a people’s movement and a dictatorial regime.
This video of a migrant sit-in in a Barcelona church is part of a long-term project about the struggles of legal and illegal migrants. This segment describes the sit-in on a night in June 2004 as experienced inside the Iglesia del Pí, documenting the assemblies held by the migrants under pressure of the government, major trade unions and the police, followed by the declarations made through the press.
UntitledBetween 2000 and 2003, PROCIVESA, the property development company that is restructuring various areas in the old part of the city, expropriated various housing blocks in Barcelona?s La Ribera neighbourhood at a low price. And then demolished them. Local residents named the new empty space that remained where their houses used to be the "Forat de la Vergonya" (the Hole of Shame), as a way of denouncing a situation that they considered degrading for a number of reasons: the public authorities? abandonment of an area that was already problematic, the interminable construction work, the loss of rights of people relocated to new apartments, etc.
UntitledDolores Tjeada Saavedra, the Councillor for Work at Marinaleda Town Council, gives a simple and detailed account of how a grassroots social movement has managed to socialize the means of production, housing, health, education and leisure in this small town in Southern Spain. Dolores explains the many benefits of having an active trade union, with the political power of the town counciland the productive force of cooperatives in the hands of the people. Marinaleda has a population of 3000, and an unemployment rate of 0%. Anybody who wants to self-build in the town is only charged 15 euros per month, and working families only pay 12 euros a month for childcare including meals, to name just two of a long list of social benefits. A true oasis in a country dominated byunbridled capitalism and the shabbiest and most retrograde government in Spain’s short history of democracy, which has left the country with an unemployment rate of 27% – 50% in the case of youth unemployment – and three million people living in poverty.
UntitledThis documentary seeks to boost the voices involved in struggles against the MAT (very high voltage power line), from legal actions to more direct actions, such as the first forest occupation in the Spanish state. They are all confronting the new 440Kv power line that is due to cross the Iberian Peninsula in 2013.
UntitledThe context around young men refusing to do military service, and their battles.