Current Films

Open­ing Program This split-screen work begins with total views as if from Mars, approach­ing the ground simul­ta­ne­ous­ly or alter­nate­ly from dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives. Many people are build­ing a coun­try road with … read more

Due to unex­p­tect­ed cir­cum­stanced this event has to be cancelled We are very sorry for this!   On Feb­ru­ary 1st, 2021 Myan­mar Mil­i­tary under the lead­er­ship of Min Aung Hlaing staged … read more

Three mil­lion Afghan refugees live in Iran, often facing dis­crim­i­na­tion and endur­ing mostly pre­car­i­ous con­di­tions. Since the tight­en­ing of U.S. sanc­tions and the result­ing infla­tion, thou­sands of refugees are return­ing … read more

The rela­tion­ship that Varso­vians have with clams is sim­i­lar to the one that once joined canaries and miners. Both species can sense danger sooner than humans because they are much … read more

A busy train­ing center for domes­tic work­ers in Indra­mayu, West Java. Like mil­lions of Indone­sian rural women, Sukma, Meri, Muji and Tari dream of a better life and find­ing hap­pi­ness … read more

Even though China does not cel­e­brate Christ­mas, there are over 600 Christ­mas-dec­o­ra­tion fac­to­ries in Yiwu, China. They are often run as a family busi­ness and man­u­fac­ture year round, employ­ing people … read more

Work­ing to the rhythm of the aisles of a banal super­mar­ket, the employ­ees seem seized by the repet­i­tive tasks and their rou­tine. There is the team from the bakery sec­tion … read more

Fahed wants to change his life. It’s been almost twenty years that he left Alge­ria. At the time he was full of hope when he arrived at the British sea­port … read more

Like many African metrop­o­lis­es, the Ethiopi­an cap­i­tal Addis Ababa is grow­ing rapid­ly. The Oromo farm­ers in the sur­round­ing area call it Fin­finnee, and a part of the Great Rift Valley … read more

Fünf Jahre lang kämpft die Bürg­erini­tia­tive DoucheFLUX dafür, ein Gebäude zu finden, zu finanzieren und zu sanieren, wo die am meis­ten Benachteiligten der Stadt sich duschen und wo sie ärztliche … read more

In a lab­o­ra­to­ry-like setup, The View­ing Booth recounts a unique encounter between a film­mak­er and a viewer. The film explores the way we make mean­ings for non­fic­tion images, and how … read more

“Mama, I miss you so much,” begins a letter Alima writes to her mother. She is one of count­less Indone­sian women work­ing as a “babu,” or nanny, for a Dutch … read more

Out of five mil­lion Costa Ricans, just over 100,000 belong to the coun­try’s eight indige­nous groups. Under a 1977 law, 24 areas of the coun­try are pro­tect­ed as indige­nous ter­ri­to­ries. How­ev­er, ille­gal land grab­bing often occurs to create space for agri­cul­ture, energy pro­duc­tion or tourist attractions.

The film shows the daily life of a Terra­ba com­mu­ni­ty that resists the expro­pri­a­tion and destruc­tion of their right­ful ter­ri­to­ries. They recul­ti­vate burned fields, refor­est, build huts, and live off of fish­ing as well as the sparse prod­ucts from their fields. The man­age­ment of the ter­ri­to­ries is in the hands of the “Asso­ci­a­tion”, which, how­ev­er, con­sists of non-indige­nous people and accord­ing­ly does not pro­tect their inter­ests. Adan and Byron, the pro­tag­o­nists of the film, strive to strength­en their inner unity and iden­ti­ty as Terra­ba. Byron trav­els to Panama to the coun­try of origin of the Ter­ribe, seek­ing self-assur­ance and expe­ri­enc­ing the stren­u­ous trans­port of a large canoe over a moun­tain to the river. It is a great col­lec­tive effort and like­wise a poignant image of the strength needed to resist.

Just recent­ly in Feb­ru­ary 2021, a land activist was mur­dered in Costa Rica— one of many cases that goes unpunished.

Clau­dio Car­bone stud­ied social archi­tec­ture in Rome, con­tin­ued his stud­ies in the field of social move­ments at var­i­ous uni­ver­si­ties of soci­ol­o­gy (Brazil, Por­tu­gal, Costa Rica), and is cur­rent­ly doing a PhD in devel­op­ment stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Social Sci­ences in Lisbon. After his short and middle-length films CIELITO REBELDE (2016), ROSSO VIVO (2017) and ANOTHER LISBON STORY (2017), HASTA QUE MUERA EL SOL is his first fea­ture documentary.

Direc­tor, cin­e­matog­ra­phy, sound: Clau­dio Carbone
Edit­ing: Cláu­dia R. Oliveira, Bruno M. Cabral, Clau­dio Carbone
Com­pos­er: Andre David
Sound design: Miguel M. Cabral
With Adan Najera Rivera, Byron Reyes Ortiz
Pro­duc­tion: Garden Films, Bruno M. Cabral
Con­tact: bruno.cabral@gardenfilms.net

 

This film describes the cre­ation of a work of art in all its amaz­ing indi­vid­ual steps. We are in the west­ern moun­tains of Iran, the land of the Bakhtiaris. Wool … read more