«La Tierra Asoma. Amayuelas».»

Past event

In a new day of the cycle «Sendas» we screened the following documentary:

La Tierra Asoma. Amayuelas

Script and Direction: Agustí Corominas

Camera and editing: Llorenç Torrades

Production: Rosa Murtra and Monica Membrive

Duration: 77 min

At a time when multinationals want to monopolise land and control over natural resources: water, seeds, knowledge, etc. in a small village in Palencia, a group of people have been fighting for more than 20 years to recover village life and peasant knowledge. A recovery that is done through sustainable economic activities and respect for nature and the environment.

The documentary unfolds as we learn about their experience, their conflicts, their successes and failures, as well as the evolution of the village. Amayuelas is a village in the region of Tierra de Campos, small but not isolated. “Villages in the 21st century cannot live in isolation”, they say, so they are part of different networks such as Plataforma Rural, Universidad Rural Paulo Freire or La Vía Campesina with whom they share problems, hopes and struggles. Day by day, their inhabitants build the utopia that a better world is possible, and in this new world, the land and the peasants must have their say.

Lecture: Llorenç Torrades. Camera and editor of the documentary

Llorenç will tell us about his experience in the filming and give us his impressions of a work dynamic that has led to the creation of small labour initiatives, the settlement of a group of young people from the urban world, the creation of innovative local community services and the implementation of other ways of working the land and livestock, as well as the rescue of local seeds and breeds.