The third edition of the documentary film cycle at Candrome – Athenaeus of Democratic Innovation will be held in June. It stars stories of activists who raise their voice to power, and rely on the technology and strength of the citizen organization to assert their rights.
What happens when science is influenced by major economic interests? What can we do in the face of human rights violations by governments? From the Care, Collectivity and Citizen Organization that the protagonists of the Docs cycle Hedy Lamarr 2023 try to change the world to make it fairer and more habitable. As of June 9 they begin three summer nights to rethink the role of technology and democratic innovation in reviewing the social struggles of the present and building the activism of the future.
A La belleza y el dolorwe know the story of New York counterculture photographer Nan Goldin and her activism against the pharmaceutical dynasty of the Sackler family, responsible for the largest opioids epidemic in American history. The collective force is the creator of Myanmar Diarios: a document close to citizen journalism denouncing the atrocities of the 2021 coup d’état in the country, relying on the new technologies. Organized civil society also appropriates digital tools in Bienvenidos a Chechenia. Hacking facial detection algorithms, the protagonists flee the anti-LGBTQ+ governmental “cleaning” of the Russian Chechenia Republic.
We’re waiting for youin the Canodrome Frescoto enjoy thethree projectionsin the Hedy Lamarr 2023 Docs cycle. The opening of doors: 21:00.
Friday, 9 June, 21:30: The belleza and the pain(All the Beauty nd the Bloodshed)
- Laura Poitras, United States, 2022
- 1h 53min, +16, Original version with Spanish subtitles
Considered one of the most important living photographers in the United States, Nan Goldin founded the PAIN activist group in 2017 with the aim of putting pressure on museums and artistic institutions to end their relationship with the Sackler family, owners of the Oxycontin pharmaceutical company, while denouncing their role in the epidemic that struck the United States and that took the lives of 600,000 people.
Golden Lion in Venice and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film, La belleza y el dolorby the Oscar-winning Laura Poitras for the documentaryCitizenFourfollows the life of Nan Goldin, from her work as a counterculture photographer and her activism. But he also talks about how power drags everything away without any thought.
Friday, 16 June, 21:30: Myanmar Diaries(Myanmar Diaries)
- Myanmar Film Collective, Myanmar, Norway, Netherlands, 2022
- 1h 10min, +13, Original version with Catalan subtitles
The Myanmar Film Collective, under the anonymity of these powerful film newspapers, denounces the atrocities committed by General Min Aung Hlaing in Myanmar since the 2021 coup d’état. This young group of anonymous filmmakers is playing their lives to demonstrate the harsh reality of their country. By mixing documentary and fiction they are building a cinematographic monument that conveys the suffocation of living in a nightmare with flagrant violations of human rights.
A powerful cry for collective condemnation of the atrocities of General Min Aung Hlaing. Citizen journalism, cinema and imagination as a defence weapon for dictatorial horror. A striking play that won the best documentary at the Berlinale 2022.
Friday, 30 June, 21:00: Welcome to Chechnya
- David France, United States, 2020
- 1h 47min, +12, Original version with English subtitles
Since 2016 Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, has been the architect of an operation focusing on “blood cleansing” of Chechens belonging to the LGBTQ+ collective, which aims to arrest, torture and execute dissident people. InBienvenidos a Checheniawe approach the day-to-day approach of a group of activists fighting with their own measures in resistance mode.0
Documentaryists risk their lives alongside activists to raise awareness of these poorly reported atrocities, while protecting the identity of victims by changing their faces using techniques of deepfake.
