May 18, 2017 | Official Selection 2017
Director: Arturo Menor
Country: Spain
Site & date of filming:: Sierra Morena 2011 y 2012
Duration: 60′
Sierra Morena, the largest Mediterranean forest on the planet. From almost sea level, the Sierra Morena mountains rise to more than a thousand meters. In this way we find the best and most complete representation of the Mediterranean forest: olive groves, oak groves, cork oaks, quejigares, until reaching the oak groves; Without forgetting the extensive alysses and the riverside forests that border their rivers.
This forest tapestry houses a rich biodiversity. It is the only place on the Iberian peninsula where all the emblematic species of the Mediterranean forest survive: the lynx, the wolf, the imperial eagle, the black vulture and the black stork.
But Sierra Morena is threatened. Vertebrate communities are changing and the forest is seriously ill. It is estimated that in one hundred and fifty years almost all trees could have died. And large populations of deer and wild boars prevent the forest from regenerating. If we do nothing, Wildmed will be the last Mediterranean forest.
May 18, 2017 | Official Selection 2017
Director: Denise Richards
Country: USA – Honduras
Site & date of filming: 2016, Honduras
Duration: 20′
Free Flight is a documentary on the Misquito people of Honduras and their attempt to save their natural resources, especially the scarlet macaw, from land-grabbers and poachers intent on destroying them. The Misquitos are a pre-industrial society who believe that every animal and tree in the forest is an individual whom they must take pains not to offend. They are the beneficiaries of a United Nations grant, but what effect will this have on their worldview? Can they preserve their culture, their language, and their macaws, who play an important role in the ecosystem and also symbolize freedom for them?
May 17, 2017 | Official Selection 2017
Director: Xavier Coll
Country: Spain
Site & date of filming: Organyà 2015
Duration: 6′ 22″
Parapent Organyà is a paragliding school that offers courses to all levels as well as tandem flights to discover the Pyrenees area.
Famous for its magic mountain the town has become a meca for acrobatic pilots. Its takeoff and landing areas a meeting point for the best pilots in the world.
May 17, 2017 | Official Selection 2017
Director: Pedro Heriberto Rodríguez Mesias – Orlando Oliva Oduardo – Yolexis Rondon Pérez
Country: Cuba
Site & date of filming: Guisa – Granma -Cuba Marzo/2015
Duration: 19′ 16″
A group of young people belonging to the Guisa free flight club, against great difficulties decide to throw their dreams to the wind.
May 10, 2017 | Official Selection 2017
Director: Marlon Pérez
Country: Colombia
Site & date of filming: Medellín 2014
Duration: 9′ 33″
Mario, who is on wheelchair talks us about his impressions after his first experience flying on a paraglider. Being an independent person who works and lives happy, he doesn’t feel limited by his condition and on the other hand, he faces with optimism and humor the challenge of living.
May 10, 2017 | Official Selection 2017
Director: Carlos Pérez Romero
Country: Spain
Site & date of filming: P.N. Cabañeros – Spain, 2016
Duration: 50′
La Dehesa es única. La Dehesa es frágil. La Dehesa es mágica. Ningún otro ecosistema de Europa es tan rico en biodiversidad como el que ocupa buena parte del suroeste de la Península Ibérica. Más de tres millones de hectáreas de un singular y variado mosaico de entornos que, mano a mano, siglo tras siglo, el ser humano y la Naturaleza como leales aliados han ido creando y sosteniendo juntos. La Dehesa se configura hoy como un hábitat natural que, delicado como es, sigue ofreciendo sustento a los hombres y refugio a multitud de especies vegetales y animales, muchas de ellas endémicas y/o amenazadas tanto como muy poco rodadas. Desde, por ejemplo, la peonía al calandino, el rabilargo o la serpiente de escalera. O que propicia secuencias excepcionales de las que han sido testigos nuestras cámaras como el baño en una charca natural de un águila calzada o la captura por parte de una culebra de cogulla de una lagartija colinegra que le supera en tamaño. Todos ellos son los protagonistas de nuestra película documental DEHESA, una apasionante historia de vida salvaje, respeto, sostenibilidad y convivencia en un paisaje único, frágil y mágico.
