In October, CinemaAttic presents LANDSCAPES OF RESISTANCE.
A programme exploring landscapes and humans, and how our surroundings affect the way we live and inhabit this world. We were promised progress, and we want to investigate how the race for progress has affected communities across the globe. Is it possible to bring together rocket science, ethnographic cinema, and queer amazonian mythology in the same programme of films? There’s only one way to answer that…
We have prepared a special programme of short films hitting Edinburgh and Glasgow, and a very special screening: the Scottish premiere of DRY GROUND BURNING (Edinburgh only!), one of the hits of the last Berlinale edition, Grand Prize winner at Cinéma du Réel, Dokufest and IndieLisboa.
GLASGOW: Where: CCA (350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow) When: Thurday 27 October, doors open at 19:30, screening starts at 20:00
Safety regulations apply
EDINBURGH: Where: St Peter’s Episcopal Church Hall (14 Lutton Place, Edinburgh EH8 9PE) – OUR NEW VENUE! When: Saturday 29 October, doors open at 19:30, screening starts at 20:00
Safety regulations apply
ONLINE SCREENING Watch the programme from the comfort of your home by purchasing an online pass valid for a little over a week!
Where: via Festhome, from anywhere in the UK When: Films available to watch from Sunday 30 October 00:00 until Sunday 6 November 23:59
LANDSCAPES OF RESISTANCE – SHORT FILM NIGHT
From megalopolis to isolated indigenous communities on the Peru-Bolivia Andean border. From the silent resistance of stateless people in the Sahara desert to the roads of Transamazônica in Brazil. Blending resistance, dignity, science fiction, religion and mythology, CinemaAttic takes you on a journey across the globe to see how communities resist the ghost of transforming capitalism.
A powerful, poetic and beautiful Short Film Programme that includes award winning shorts wowed in festivals including Cannes, IDFA, Clermont Ferrand, Telluride, Chicago Film Festival or Vienna Shorts.
The Aymara community has long lived in the mountains and high plains along what are now the borders of Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and Argentina. After the Spanish evangelisation campaigns, a second wave of conversions has reached this community in the last few decades. Now the Aymara believe in Heaven rather than Earth – as we’ll see in Ana Edwards’s Mundo.
But when it comes to oblivion, few communities in the world are more ignored than the people of Western Sahara. How does one tell a story of displacement? Director Abdessamad El Montassir in his film Galb’Echaouf presents Sharaui people unable to talk about the trauma of the past. The breathtaking landscapes of Western Sahara seem devoid of memory. Yet, the eyes of its people bear enduring signs of the tragedy that has marked their existence for decades.
Sometimes the most faithful path to documenting the reality of a community is to use all the magic potential of its local myths, rites and traditions. That is the case of Curupira and the machine of destiny, one of the most incredible short films we’ve seen in the last year. In the Amazon region of Brazil, aisles of roads cut through the jungle, exposing wounds that stretch from the military dictatorship to the present day. Director Janaina Wagner takes us on a magical ghostly journey with the spirit of 14-year-old prostitute Iracema, who goes along the road in search of Curupira, the queer devil protector of the Amazon rainforests. Visually and sonically incredible, the film is a passionate appeal against deforestation and trans-Amazonian road construction.
There is a particular presence of Brazilian films in this programme, from the Northern cities to the south Amazonia. A country producing feverish outstanding cinema every year despite the suffocating conditions inflicted by the Bolsonaro government. Creativity flourish in Brazil, and Brazilian filmmakers resist and put the focus on stories of resistance too. That’s why we have a particular devotion and interest to see their voices as part of this Landscapes of Resistance programme.
Join us on this journey around the world approaching how different communities understand the idea of resistance in their everyday lives, and how the mountains, lakes, skyscrapers and jungles surrounding them affect their vision of the world today. We are what we see.
Make your way in, CinemaAttic is back in town!
Sideral – Carlos Segundo
Brazil – France | 2021 | 15 min.
Languages: Portuguese
Closed Captions & Subtitles in: English, French
In Natal, on the Brazilian north coast, the country is preparing to launch its first manned space rocket into space. A couple lives with their two children near the space centre, she is a cleaner and he is a mechanic, but she dreams of other horizons.
Festivals: Cannes International Film Festival, Telluride International Film Festival, Curtacinema, Bogoshorts, Clermont-Ferrand
Curupira e a máquina do destino (Curupira and the machine of the destiny) – Janaina Wagner
Brazil – France | 2021 | 25 min. | Documentary, fiction, experimental
Languages: Portuguese
Closed Captions & Subtitles in: English
Filmed in 2021 on the roads Transamazônica, BR-319 and the real village of Realidade, in the south of Amazonia, Curupira e a máquina do destino is the encounter between the entity Curupira, a queer devil who protects the forests of Brazil, and the incarnated ghost of Iracema, a 14-year-old prostitute.
Festivals: Glasgow Short Film Festival, Las Palmas International Film Festival, Vienna Shorts International Film Festival, Olhar de Cinema
Mundo (World) – Ana Edwards
Chile | 2020 | 19 min. | Documentary
Languages: Spanish
Closed Captions & Subtitles in: English
Matilde is an elderly alpaca herder surrounded by the awe-inspiring natural scenery that was once sacred to the Aymara, the indigenous Chilean community to which she belongs. But today all that counts for Mathilde is the Word of God: the Bible.
Festivals: IDFA, FEST, Tampere Film Festival, Festival Regard, Short Waves Festival
Galb’Echaouf – Abdessamad El Montassir
Morocco – Western Sahara | 2021 | 19 min. | Documentary
Languages: Arabic (Hassanya)
Closed Captions & Subtitles in: English, French
The breathtaking landscapes of Western Sahara don’t seem to have a memory. Yet, the eyes of its people bear enduring signs of the tragedy that has marked their existence for decades. Through small details, fragments of a lasting conflict find their way to the screen.
Festivals: IDFA, Visions du Reél, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Montreal International Documentary Festival
Estamos Todos Aqui (We Are all Here) – Rafael Mellim, Chico Santos
Brazil | 2017 | 20 min. | Documentary, fiction
Languages: Portuguese
Closed Captions & Subtitles in: English
Rosa, the trans teenager who stars in this story, was thrown out of her house and intends to build her shack in the Prainha favela. While favela residents dispute with each other whether Rosa can be there or not, a gigantic port expansion project is silently walking over all residents.
Festivals: Curta Cinema, Bogoshorts, Festival de Gramado, Olhar de Cinema
In October, CinemaAttic presents LANDSCAPES OF RESISTANCE.
A programme exploring landscapes and humans, and how our surroundings affect the way we live and inhabit this world. We were promised progress, and we want to investigate how the race for progress has affected communities across the globe. Is it possible to bring together rocket science, ethnographic cinema, and queer amazonian mythology in the same programme of films? There’s only one way to answer that…
We have prepared a special programme of short films hitting Edinburgh and Glasgow, and a very special screening: the Scottish premiere of DRY GROUND BURNING (Edinburgh only!), one of the hits of the last Berlinale edition, Grand Prize winner at Cinéma du Réel, Dokufest and IndieLisboa.
For more information visit HERE
GLASGOW:
Where: CCA (350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow)
When: Thurday 27 October, doors open at 19:30, screening starts at 20:00
Safety regulations apply
EDINBURGH:
Where: St Peter’s Episcopal Church Hall (14 Lutton Place, Edinburgh EH8 9PE) – OUR NEW VENUE!
When: Saturday 29 October, doors open at 19:30, screening starts at 20:00
Safety regulations apply
ONLINE SCREENING
Watch the programme from the comfort of your home by purchasing an online pass valid for a little over a week!
Where: via Festhome, from anywhere in the UK
When: Films available to watch from Sunday 30 October 00:00 until Sunday 6 November 23:59
LANDSCAPES OF RESISTANCE - SHORT FILM NIGHT
From megalopolis to isolated indigenous communities on the Peru-Bolivia Andean border. From the silent resistance of stateless people in the Sahara desert to the roads of Transamazônica in Brazil. Blending resistance, dignity, science fiction, religion and mythology, CinemaAttic takes you on a journey across the globe to see how communities resist the ghost of transforming capitalism.
A powerful, poetic and beautiful Short Film Programme that includes award winning shorts wowed in festivals including Cannes, IDFA, Clermont Ferrand, Telluride, Chicago Film Festival or Vienna Shorts.
The Aymara community has long lived in the mountains and high plains along what are now the borders of Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and Argentina. After the Spanish evangelisation campaigns, a second wave of conversions has reached this community in the last few decades. Now the Aymara believe in Heaven rather than Earth - as we’ll see in Ana Edwards’s Mundo.
But when it comes to oblivion, few communities in the world are more ignored than the people of Western Sahara. How does one tell a story of displacement? Director Abdessamad El Montassir in his film Galb’Echaouf presents Sharaui people unable to talk about the trauma of the past. The breathtaking landscapes of Western Sahara seem devoid of memory. Yet, the eyes of its people bear enduring signs of the tragedy that has marked their existence for decades.
Sometimes the most faithful path to documenting the reality of a community is to use all the magic potential of its local myths, rites and traditions. That is the case of Curupira and the machine of destiny, one of the most incredible short films we’ve seen in the last year. In the Amazon region of Brazil, aisles of roads cut through the jungle, exposing wounds that stretch from the military dictatorship to the present day. Director Janaina Wagner takes us on a magical ghostly journey with the spirit of 14-year-old prostitute Iracema, who goes along the road in search of Curupira, the queer devil protector of the Amazon rainforests. Visually and sonically incredible, the film is a passionate appeal against deforestation and trans-Amazonian road construction.
There is a particular presence of Brazilian films in this programme, from the Northern cities to the south Amazonia. A country producing feverish outstanding cinema every year despite the suffocating conditions inflicted by the Bolsonaro government. Creativity flourish in Brazil, and Brazilian filmmakers resist and put the focus on stories of resistance too. That’s why we have a particular devotion and interest to see their voices as part of this Landscapes of Resistance programme.
Join us on this journey around the world approaching how different communities understand the idea of resistance in their everyday lives, and how the mountains, lakes, skyscrapers and jungles surrounding them affect their vision of the world today. We are what we see.
Make your way in, CinemaAttic is back in town!
Sideral - Carlos Segundo
Brazil - France | 2021 | 15 min.
Languages: Portuguese
Closed Captions & Subtitles in: English, French
In Natal, on the Brazilian north coast, the country is preparing to launch its first manned space rocket into space. A couple lives with their two children near the space centre, she is a cleaner and he is a mechanic, but she dreams of other horizons.
Festivals: Cannes International Film Festival, Telluride International Film Festival, Curtacinema, Bogoshorts, Clermont-Ferrand
Curupira e a máquina do destino (Curupira and the machine of the destiny) - Janaina Wagner
Brazil - France | 2021 | 25 min. | Documentary, fiction, experimental
Languages: Portuguese
Closed Captions & Subtitles in: English
Filmed in 2021 on the roads Transamazônica, BR-319 and the real village of Realidade, in the south of Amazonia, Curupira e a máquina do destino is the encounter between the entity Curupira, a queer devil who protects the forests of Brazil, and the incarnated ghost of Iracema, a 14-year-old prostitute.
Festivals: Glasgow Short Film Festival, Las Palmas International Film Festival, Vienna Shorts International Film Festival, Olhar de Cinema
Mundo (World) - Ana Edwards
Chile | 2020 | 19 min. | Documentary
Languages: Spanish
Closed Captions & Subtitles in: English
Matilde is an elderly alpaca herder surrounded by the awe-inspiring natural scenery that was once sacred to the Aymara, the indigenous Chilean community to which she belongs. But today all that counts for Mathilde is the Word of God: the Bible.
Festivals: IDFA, FEST, Tampere Film Festival, Festival Regard, Short Waves Festival
Galb’Echaouf - Abdessamad El Montassir
Morocco - Western Sahara | 2021 | 19 min. | Documentary
Languages: Arabic (Hassanya)
Closed Captions & Subtitles in: English, French
The breathtaking landscapes of Western Sahara don’t seem to have a memory. Yet, the eyes of its people bear enduring signs of the tragedy that has marked their existence for decades. Through small details, fragments of a lasting conflict find their way to the screen.
Festivals: IDFA, Visions du Reél, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Montreal International Documentary Festival
Estamos Todos Aqui (We Are all Here) - Rafael Mellim, Chico Santos
Brazil | 2017 | 20 min. | Documentary, fiction
Languages: Portuguese
Closed Captions & Subtitles in: English
Rosa, the trans teenager who stars in this story, was thrown out of her house and intends to build her shack in the Prainha favela. While favela residents dispute with each other whether Rosa can be there or not, a gigantic port expansion project is silently walking over all residents.
Festivals: Curta Cinema, Bogoshorts, Festival de Gramado, Olhar de Cinema
