The eleventh edition of the Ciutadà Compromés Cinema Festival includes a special session on Dana that will take place tomorrow, mars 21 October, at 19:00, co-organized by ACICOM and the associations The Cultural of Albal y duck. The screening will take place at the Albal House of Culture and will begin at 19 hours with the projection of three Valencian audiovisuals that are part of the official programming and that address, from complementary perspectives, memoirs, losses and reconstruction processes after the storm.
Voices from a street rescues testimonies and memories from a neighborhood in l'Horta Sur (catarrh) to rebuild the day to day that the flood interrupted, focusing on community life and the emotions that sustain collective recovery. It is directed by Elena Soler González, lasts nine minutes, and received a Nomination in the category Fragments at the Docs Valencia festival.
The mud footprint, by Rodrigo Márquez, focuses on the restoration of family photographs damaged by mud as an exercise in intimate and social memory, turning the care of images into an act of symbolic reparation for what was lost. The documentary addresses the importance of family memory that makes up, also, a historical memory shared among thousands of families in l'Horta Sur de València.
Complete the program pass again, a sixteen-minute short film directed by Ana Victoria Pérez and Amparo Fortuny that dialogues with recent memory and the emotional scars left by the episode of 29 October and reflects on the impact of climate change. Offers a human portrait of the catastrophe: a moving look at the flood through the witnesses of survivors and collects very frequent and violent signs of a global emergency.
Colloquium
The subsequent colloquium will feature the participation of the biologist and popularizer Fernando Valladares; of Ernesto Martínez Alfaro, on behalf of the Association Fatal Victims Dana 29O; and of Esther Nebot, responsible for restoration of photographs at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), to address the science of risk in the face of the climate emergency, community mourning and the preservation of domestic heritage following the storm. The proposal aims to turn the room into a space for conversation and shared learning where to connect the neighborhood experience with research and with specific practices to care for the visual legacy affected by the flood. With this quote, The FCCC reinforces its vocation to activate critical views and weave complicities between the creators of audiovisuals, social entities and the public of citizens, displaying a billboard that combines projections and spaces for dialogue throughout the Valencian territory during the second half of October.
