KINO NATURAL

The programme of films will be a proposition towards humility and humanity. It will raise questions about priorities, values and dreams. It will be an invitation to experiment, in different ways of sharing films, art, ideas and conversations. It will focus on creating stronger bonds among people. The programme of films will be composed by 6 features length films presented in conversation with each other. The name of the programme will be “Reimagining the Land of Humans” An hommage to the land: the administration and possession of the land, the labor of the land, the practices related to it and the ways of life attached. We will reassert the primacy of the land as a critical way of thinking about the world and its various crises. The rise of the climate movement reflects a growing anxiety about ecological catastrophe, a global disaster that promises to render vast swathes of the world’s land uninhabitable and millions of its population landless. As is often the case in these films’ depictions of similar struggles fictional and documentary alike this catastrophe was precipitated by powerful corporate and governmental landowners controlling, manipulating, and abusing law and land. Before the current health crisis, young people took to the streets to strike; in the most effective form of urban protest against an all-connected metropolitan world, they blocked passage through city streets.
This retrospective of films about the land is also, perhaps inevitably, a retrospective of the struggles of the 20th century. Through these films, we can begin to understand the magnitude of the shifts in land and power that this century brought with it, as well as the political transformations that its excesses have precipitated for our already chaotic new century.