TUESDAY, MAY 10.
INAUGURATION DAY - 19:00
OPENING OF IV EDITION: UTOPIA
Patrick Hazard and Mikel Belascoain
FILM SCHOOL
We premiere the work done by students of the "Filmmaking for Social Change Film School" whose first edition was held between October 2021 and May 2022.
- Ben Yart. A kinky song.
(Director: Gemma Quincoces, Julen Goldarazena, Ivan Gonzalez / Production: Alex Sanchez / Year 2022)
Ben Yart is an artist who grew up in the neighborhood of Mendillorri. The documentary focuses on an intimate vision and delves into one of the generational voices of the new underground in Navarra, a referent of the artistic collective Chill Mafia.
SOCIAL AVANT-GARDE CINEMA FROM NAVARRE
The opening day is completed with the screening of the new documentary film by the Navarrese filmmaker Natxo Leuza, who accumulates an extensive career in the world of documentary film, counting with the selection in more than 70 international festivals and more than 25 awards, becoming a candidate for the Goya 2019 for Best Documentary Short Film with Born In Gambia (2018). We will count on his presence and a debate can be initiated after the screening.
- Our Voices.
(Directed by: Natxo Leuza. Production: Natxo Leuza / Raúl Goñi. Year 2022. 18 min)
Wais and Emram are fleeing the hell of one of the worst humanitarian crises of the 21st century: the armed conflict in Afghanistan. They have spent all their families' savings and are risking their lives to reach Europe. Their journey will transform them into other people, they will never be the same again.
To sign up:
1. CIVIVOX Condestable or any CIVIVOX center
2. Condestable Telephone: 948 212 575
3. Telephone numbers. 010 (Free of charge). 948 420 100 (Outside Pamplona)
Wednesday, May 11.
DISTOPIA. ONCE AGAIN THE WORLD CAME TO AN END - 19:00
In this conference we focus on the importance of understanding the dystopia in which we find ourselves today, in order to imagine a new vision of the world.
- Zombie litanies.
(Directed by: Lia Guerrero / Year 2022 / 16 minutes. Spain)
This audiovisual piece made especially for Filmmaking for Social Change is composed from images of zombie-themed films. This zombie, dead in life, undoubtedly responds to the aspects that terrify us. Zombies live dead in their utopia of peace and calm because they lie in their graves to emerge from there as putrid, hunger-ridden offal. The layer of terror or hilarity that covers the zombie films allows the emergence of what lies beneath, that which reveals that collective unconscious, those monstrous Identities we have built, but which are also the sign of the wound or the crack through which the light of Utopia passes, in the sense of a free place, a provisional, mobile and temporary zone.
- Lost Paradise.
(Directed by: Lia Guerrero / Year 2021 / 16 minutes. Spain)
We premiere in Filmmaking for Social Change this short film inspired by Gustave Doré's illustrations of Milton's Paradise Lost. The expulsion from paradise as a human condition places us in the longing for the lost Eden. Since our disconnection from nature, the search for the longed-for paradise on earth has perhaps distracted us from looking at the wonder of life unfolding before our eyes.
*The screenings will be attended by Lia Guerrero, Colombian artist based in Spain since 1994.
- Be careful out there.
(Directed by: Alberto Gracia / Year 2021 / 23 minutes / Spain)
A car drives down a highway while a bunker refuses to disappear into oblivion. Echoes of times past come from the future into Cosme's residual world."
We will count with the presence of Alberto Gracia, who will present his award-winning short film at the Punto de Vista Festival, in its X-Films section.
- Between the Sun and the Earth.
(Directed by Javiera Véliz and Bárbara Pestan / Year 2021 / 10 min / Chile) European Premiere.
The earth is a body that inhabits its own territory, here the water flows from the top of this mountain range to the mouth of the sea, through it we move through the desert and the different beings and spaces that make it up. The movement of the wind tells us that nature expands when we listen. What is the connection between our body and the earth?
MONIKA ARANDA AND ALEXIA BRIONES
The Navarre artist Monika Aranda and the Catalan artist Alexia Briones will talk about their artistic proposals made especially for this year's edition of Filmmaking for social change.
To sign up:
1. CIVIVOX Condestable or any CIVIVOX center
2. Condestable Telephone: 948 212 575
3. Telephone numbers. 010 (Free of charge). 948 420 100 (Outside Pamplona)
Thursday, May 12.
UTOPIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS - 19:00
COLLABORATION WITH THE BARCELONA AND MADRID FILM AND HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL
We continue our collaboration with the Barcelona Film and Human Rights Festival initiated in 2021. Toni Navarro, artist and director of this festival, has selected the films that will be shown this day, in which we put the focus on a vision of utopia from the point of view of Human Rights. The Barcelona Film and Human Rights Festival has more than 20 years of history and programs around 100 films a year from all over the world.
- Welcome Saharawi.
(Directed by: Carlos Hernández López / Year 2020 / 53 minutes / Mexico)
Since 1975 the Saharawi people have been living in refugee camps, surviving in the desert, fighting for their independence. This documentary witnesses the birth of two Saharawi girls, the love that their families celebrate at their birth and at the same time witnesses their heritage of struggle to regain their freedom.
- From Trash to Treasure.
(Director: Lara Lee / Year 2020 / 24 minutes / Burkina Faso)
The people of Lesotho, a mountainous country completely surrounded by South Africa, face many difficult challenges, from soil erosion to overgrazing and poverty. However, local communities also show ingenuity and creativity. In particular, a number of artists have developed a talent for turning negatives into positives through creativity. In this short film, Cultures of Resistance Films portrays a diversity of inventive artists and creators through whom the audience discovers a fascinating group of inhabitants who communicate their desire to bring about positive change using art as a medium.
- TRACING UTOPIA.
(Director: Katarina de Sousa and Nick Tyson / Year 2021 / 27 minutes / Portugal / United States).
A group of teenagers discuss their ideas about an LGTIB utopia. They build safe online spaces within a popular video game and create a manifesto for a more equitable and just world where everyone can be their true selves. In this poignant short documentary film, selected at the Rotterdam Film Festival, directors Catarina de Sousa and Nick Tyson demonstrate that there is much to learn from Generation Z. With humor and kindness, they illustrate the power of a community of love.
To sign up:
1. CIVIVOX Condestable or any CIVIVOX center
2. Condestable Telephone: 948 212 575
3. Telephone numbers. 010 (Free of charge). 948 420 100 (Outside Pamplona)
Friday, May 13.
UTOPIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS - 19:00
- Co-production of knowledge with people at risk
of social exclusion.
(Raúl Goñi / Year 2022 / 30 min / Spain)
The projects of the Barcelona-based artist from Navarre propose protest as an inherent fact of life. Through his projects he seeks to engage and collaborate with migrants and refugees not only to co-produce knowledge regarding the phenomenon, but to make it useful as a sensitive way to involve them in political and social struggles, build bridges and help them process their experiences in a more positive and affirmative way.
COLLABORATION WITH THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Filmmaking for social change collaborates for the fourth consecutive year with the London International Documentary Film Festival (LIDF). We have the presence of Patrick Hazard, director of the London Festival, who will present on this occasion the two award-winning films in London in this year's edition. This will be followed by a joint reflection with the audience on Utopia in the 21st century.
- The Lost Shoes.
(Director: Tomaso Aramini and Rafiqfuad Yarahmadi / Year 2020 / 104 minutes / Italy)
We present the film that won the award for Best Documentary Feature at this year's London Documentary Film Festival. This documentary is about the story of a man from Verona, Italy, who dedicated his life and his political and activist experience to his communist ideals, until he stood up to NATO. It raises the reflection of utopia in the twentieth century and its cracks.
- Down to Earth (Blisko Ziemi) .
(Director: Paulina Sikora / Year 2020 / 30 minutes / Poland)
Documentary short film, winner of the award for best short film at the London Documentary Film Festival. The short film places love and care at the center, regardless of any moral judgment, as the central thesis of this year's edition dedicated to Utopia.
To sign up:
1. CIVIVOX Condestable or any CIVIVOX center
2. Condestable Telephone: 948 212 575
3. Telephone numbers. 010 (Free of charge). 948 420 100 (Outside Pamplona)
Saturday, May 14.
LIGHT IN THE SHADOWS. 19:00 MUSEUM OF NAVARRA
We close another year of Filmmaking for Social Change at the Museum of Navarra with a day dedicated to light in the shadows. A form of aesthetic, physiophilosophical and curatorial positioning to position ourselves in a luminous vision of the world in a historical moment that could be described as profoundly dark and dystopian. The entire program starts from a dark, almost black background that shines at some point.
Reserve your invitation at the Museum of Navarra
ENVIRONMENTAL UTOPIA? Jaso Way
The climate crisis -in a more global context of worldwide ecological crisis- and its consequences at all levels, is probably the main challenge facing humanity today, and its consequences are felt at all levels. Our interest in Filmmaking for social change is to offer a complementary and, we believe, very necessary vision of this issue, bringing light to the table among these shadows. The idea is to offer people reasons to believe that this situation can be reversed and not just an apocalyptic vision of it. To this end, we have asked Camino Jaso for a different and alternative intervention. Camino Jaso is a biologist, environmentalist and specialist in restoration of natural landscapes and urban landscapes and among many other projects, led the area of ecology and mobility of the City of Pamplona in the last legislature.
- Gap .
(Gorka Beunza)
We propose to highlight the photographic work of the Navarrese artist Gorka Beunza. His anarchic profile, far from contemporary artistic trends, fits very well with the nature of this festival. Gorka Beunza is an artist with a solid career, whose work is dedicated to the search for light and magic in everyday life. The artist will develop an intervention in the Hall and will bring his work to the public in the hall, as a prelude to the film screening.
- DESSERT LIGHTS - LIGHTS OF THE DESERT .
(Directed by: Felix Blume Year 2021 / 30 minutes / Portugal)
Strange lights appear at night in the Mexican desert. The neighbors tell us what they have seen: fire, a ball of fire, lights flying, lightning falling from the sky and a flash of lightning. The uniqueness of each experience builds a complete story narrated by a chorus of people. The night is not as dark as it seems. The desert is filled with all kinds of living things. This emptiness is the place for everyone. Desert Lights invites us to open our eyes wide in the twilight and listen to the sounds hidden in the darkness.
ARTISTIC PROGRAMMING
Sunday 08 May - Sunday 15 May. Civivox Condestable / Museum of Navarre
The artistic programming is another vision parallel to the cinematographic at Filmmaking for Social Change. Each year we invite a series of artists to give their free vision about the theme.
The artist from Navarre Monika Arandaproposes a large-format installation that reflects on the existence of 1,300 endangered languages in the world.
Raúl Goñi makes us reflect on the current situation of people at risk of exclusion.
Lia Guerrero, whose work is retrospective at this year's festival, offers us four additional video artworks to those that will be shown at the festival. will be available with a continuous projection in the Condestable Hall. The works presented for the first time in this festival are "Influencia", "Ctrl", "Inmersión" and "Ojo".
In addition, the new works made especially for this edition will be presented by photographer and filmmaker Miguel Goñi, the catalan artist Alexia Briones and the Catalan artist Toni Navarro, all of them will focus their proposal on Utopia.
Finally, we highlight the work of the Navarrese artist Gorka Beunza who presents an installation in the Museum of Navarra.