The Walker arrives in San Sebastián, a place of light-filled beauty. A red-coloured strip moves slowly through the forests and along the edges of the wind and the sea, between the noise of the night and the quietness of the day. With slow steps, he moves before the eyes of many: a calm figure in the immensity of the world, leaving a fleeting mark in the memory of strangers. Past and present merge with one another. Both creation and nature dissolve into dust.
"In this film nighttime will fall 14 times. We will count them as they happen”. This is the beginning of this journey through the night and music, a drift through the thoughts of Basque artist Jorge Oteiza, dominated by one particular night: the one spent at the Basilica of Arantzazu. There we experience the longest night, beside the church organ, in which the filmmaker Oskar Alegria encloses himself to tell the 14 nights to the pianist Iñar Sastre, convened to imagine through the keys a series of images that the musician won’t see. From this challenge will emerge a collection of 14 moons, 14 darknesses, 14 mysteries making up a same frieze. 14, like the number of apostles that Oteiza succeeded in placing on the façade of that same place, and 14 because, as he himself said, “there was no space for more”.
Using archive material and employing a fragmented, polyphonic structure, the film presents a history of flamenco that links it to modernity, popular culture and politics. Through unexpected narratives and associations, and featuring figures from various eras and contexts, the film explores an 'impure' flamenco that is in constant dialogue with the world, where tradition, mass culture, and the contemporary imagination coexist.
Adela, a Mexican sound artist, travels from the jungle to the Peruvian Andes with Lucho, her guide and translator. Following in the footsteps of her grandfather, a Catalan republican exiled in Mexico, she weaves a sound map of endangered languages. When the fear of death appears, the reality breaks into pieces. Adela’s journey becomes an intimate voyage to her childhood home. Far from the Trees is packed with tales of the fragility of existence and the need to remember, listen and love.
On the French Riviera, two gangs of kids compete in their favourite game: jumping off the red cliffs of the Mediterranean. Géo, barely five years old, discovers over the course of a summer a world where friendship blends with rivalry, and where the first stirrings of the heart become a source of tension.
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