SUN 13 SEPT
The Muse ART GALLERY
269 Portobello Road, W11 1LR




International Documentaries 1


6 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Aunque Seamos Islas (Even if we are Islands) 
Cristina Rodríguez Paz, Documentary 79 mins. 12A. Spain,
A filmmaker in crisis sets out to find the last lighthouse keepers. What begins as a journey across the land becomes a journey within, where the act of filming merges with their fading stories – an ode to a disappearing way of life.

A tarea
Alfonso O’Donnell. . Documentary 28 mins 12 Spain
Poachers and climate change are wiping out the fine clam and the slimy clam in the Galician estuaries. A group of shellfish gatherers on foot fight to remedy this imbalance. A hard work whose tradition is extinguished with each generation.

Children of Rohingya
Pablo Aira. Documentary. 14 mins 12. Spain
Kiran, a documentary photographer specializing in marginalized communities, encounters the Rohingya community in Langkawi, Malaysia. Moved by their needs, he launches an educational project aimed at empowering the children through language learning and essential skills, helping them integrate, thrive, and build a dignified future on the island.

UMANA 80 
Fabrizio Giovanardi. Social Documentary 11 Mins 12A Italy
A rehabilitation community for drug addicts seen through the eyes of Matteo and Giulia, two volunteers who will attend it every day for a year.

Beauty 
Eduardo Muñoz & José del Corral Documentary 18 mins 12A Spain
Alejandro lost a leg. But he found a purpose: to improve the lives of those who, like him,
live beyond the norm.

Three Sisters
Lolita Ismailova. Documentary. 26 mins. U Russia
In the heart of the Far Eastern taiga, where the forest is home and the bear is an ancestor, three elderly sisters teach us how to laugh and how to remember who we are. nA documentary comedy about life within a vanishing Udege culture.

The land where the angel stumbled
Rodion Ismailov. Documentary. 95 mins 12A Azerbaijan
Dagestan is one of the most multilingual regions in the world, where 32
languages and around 120 dialects are spoken. There is, perhaps, no other
place on earth where such linguistic diversity is encountered in such a
confined area..

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