IndieFest, Barcelona Indigenous Film Festival

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IndiFest, Festival de Cine Indígena de Barcelona gives indigenous peoples a voice on the creative scene, allowing them to bring their demands for compliance with their internationally-recognized human and political rights to a wider audience.

The Festival advocates for political and social mobilization, with activities that range from audiovisual projections to workshops, talks and more, giving local residents the opportunity to discover the different perspectives, problems, struggles and proposals for change that impact indigenous communities.

2023 Program

This edition is focused on the climate emergency, emphasizing through cinema how the ways of living of indigenous peoples are fully linked to the preservation of the environment, biodiversity and nature. And, it highlights that it indigenous peoples who suffer the worst consequences of climate change—yet they are the ones who have contributed the least to the problem.

This year's program opens with a film that is making its way through festivals around the world: We Are Guardians (USA, Brazil, 2023), a moving portrait of a kaleidoscope of characters and perspectives striving to save what remains of the Brazilian Amazon. Other films on the program include Bones of Crows (Canada, 2022) a multi-generational story of resilience told through the eyes of Cree matriarch who was torn away from her family and forced to enter Canada's residential school system; Wangala, (Western Sahara, 2022) a short documentary that gives visibility to the situation that has characterized the decades-long conflict in the Western Sahara through the testimony of Sahrawi women from the refugee camps; and Extractivismo, cuerpos y territorios (Colombia, Guatemala, 2022) a short film that reflects on the impact on women's bodies and the violation of human rights by transnational corporations that operate in the global South.

Films will be screened in original version with Catalan or Spanish subtitles.

Venues

Most films will be screened at Cinemes Girona with additional showings at Ateneu del Raval, Filmoteca de Catalunya, Nau Bòstik, Ágora Juan Andrés Benítez, El Mercat Cultural de Vallvidrera as well as Cinema Catalunya in Terrassa, MAC Museu d'Art de Cerdanyola in Cerdanyola del Vallès and Sala Santa Llúciain Reus. Tickets are free, but a donation is requested, and you can get them on the festival website.

For more events check our online events calendar.

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