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On the slopes of the Spanish Pyrenees, the construction of the Itoiz Dam in the 1990s flooded seven villages. A line of raw rock encircles the contained green water, marking the landscape with a scar that recalls the still acute injury of the residents displaced 592 metres higher up. The landscape has changed and the relationship between men and their environment has been disturbed. After having fought for years against the flooding of the villages and lands, today they are the distant observers of a suffered change. Ilargi is a farmer and Javier is a park ranger responsible for protecting vultures. They each embody a very different relationship with animals and space. One is close, with a relationship that involves touch as she provides the cows with care. The other, necessarily far from the birds of prey, mainly watching them with binoculars, is in a purely visual relationship. The film lies here, in this difference of distance and point of view created by the disruption of the scenery and, with it, that of an entire ecosystem, in a strong duality of elements, between life and death.
04/2018 Visions du Réel, Official Selection of Short and Medium-length films, Switzerland.
06/2018 Kimuak katalogoa, Spain.
09/2018 Donostia Zinemaldia, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, Spain.
10/2018 Alcances Documentary Film Festival, Official Short Film Section, Spain.
Special mention from the jury.
10/2018 Curtocircuito, Penínsulas Section, Spain. Audience Award for Best
Short Film.
10/2018 Navarra Young Artists, Audiovisuals, Spain. First Prize.
10/2018 FESANCOR- Chilean International Short Film Festival, International
Documentary Section, Chile.
11/2018 ZINEBI, Bertoko Begiradak, Spain.
11/2018 Start International Film Festival, International Competition, Azerbaijan.
11/2018 MICAI – International Environmental and Independent Film Festival,
Argentina.
11/2018 PORTO/POST/DOC: Film & Media Festival, Carta Blanca Punto de Vista,
Portugal.
12/2018 Festival 7 Lunas, Spain.
12/2018 Bogoshorts – Bogotá Short Film Festival, Colombia.
12/2018 Shortz Festival, Serbia.
03/2019 Punto de Vista, Spain.
03/2019 Agoitzeko Kultur Etxea-Aoiz Cultural Centre, Spain.
03/2019 Las Palmas International Film Festival, Spain.
03/2019 FIJR International Young Filmmakers Festival, Spain.
04/2019 Paisaxe transxénica, Session programmed by Tractora Koop., Cineclube
Compostela, Spain.
04/2019 Festival Cinéma Espagnol de Nantes, France.
04/2019 Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
04/2019 Glasgow CCA, United Kingdom.
04/2019 Peña la Única documentary series, Spain.
04/2019 Rome Independent Prisma Awards, Italy.
05/2019 Trento Film Festival, Italy.
05/2019 Ecozine Festival, Spain. Best documentary short film.
05/2019 Lizoainibar Arriasgoitiko udala / Lizoain Valley Town Council, Spain.
05/2019 CinemAmbiente Festival, Italy.
05/2019 Leeds Hyde Park Picture House, United Kingdom.
05/2019 Manchester Cervantes Institute, United Kingdom.
05/2019 Stour Space, United Kingdom.
06/2019 Filmadrid – International Film Festival, Pasajes de cine, Spain.
06/2019 Jazar, Spain.
06/2019 Ficmec – Canary Islands International Environmental Film Festival,
Spain.
06/2019 The Village Doc Festival, Italy.
06/2019 International Ecological Festival ‘To Save and Preserve’, Russia.
08/2019 Bendita tú eres, Argentina.
09/2019 Alder International Short Film Festival, United States. Best
Spanish-language short film directed by a woman.
09/2019 Filmoteca de Navarra, Spain.
09/2019 Basque Film Series, Uruguayan Film Library, Uruguay.
09/2019 The Portobello Film Festival, United Kingdom.
09/2019 FICBUEU – Bueu International Short Film Festival, Spain.
Best Spanish Short Film
09/2019 Reykjavík International Film Festival, Iceland.
09/2019 Nuovi Mondi Mountain Film Festival, Italy.
10/2019 Nominee for the 2020 Goya Awards, Spain.
10/2019 Corto e Fieno Rural Film Festival, Italy.
10/2019 Basque Documentary Film Week, Spain.
11/2019 FIBABC, Spain.
11/2019 Interférences Festival, France.
11/2019 Veracruz World Film Festival. Emiliano Zapata, Mexico.
12/2019 Cinecipó – Festival do Filme Insurgente, Brazil.
12/2019 Ukerdi Mountain Film Festival, Spain.
12/2019 Delhi International Film Festival, India.
02/2020 Museum of Navarre, Spain.
06/2020 International Biennial Dona i Cinema – Women and Cinema, Spain.
09/2020 Huarte Centre for Contemporary Art, Spain.
10/2020 Cineteca Madrid, Landscapes and Packaging, Spain.
11/2020 MAAM – Audiovisual Anthropology Exhibition of Madrid, Spain.
11/2020 LIDF – The London International Documentary Festival, United Kingdom
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