The sustainability of consumption and production practices in the Global South is obstructed by continued exploitation and pollution by corporations in the Global North. This unfair dynamic undermines the South’s efforts to achieve sustainable change, as resource exploitation and unequal economic benefits perpetuate dependency and limit opportunities for investment in more sustainable alternatives.
This is why we believe that in the European context, there is an urgent need to raise awareness of the reality of what is happening, as well as to recognize the direct responsibility for the practice of intensive natural resource extraction in our South.
La Sur Real presents ‘Colonialismo Silencioso’ (Silent Colonialism), a space for dialogue in which three short documentaries analyse projects related to mining and extractivism.
El Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia, lithium mining in Chile, and the Mayan Train Project in Mexico, will approach these cases from a decolonial perspective to problematize the power relations between the North and the Global South, taking a historical journey from the time of colonization of AbyaYala (Latin America) to the present: Globalization, the commodification of nature, and its relationship to climate change, revealing that these ecocidal and ethnocidal power relations between the Global North and South are still in effect.
El rugido de la bestia brota del pozo más profundo de la tierra. El relámpago, el viento y el río predicen el cambio de los tiempos. Los ecosistemas que han gobernado durante cientos de años se ven sacudidos. Cortometraje en colaboración con la artista trans-animal Analú Laferal.
AMONG SAVAGES
Kervin Saint Pere
GERMANY
14:40 min
2020
With regard to the current debate about the return and origin of the “objects” shown in museums in scientific contexts or under scientific pretexts, a story is told that has almost never been told before: Carlos Poppe was a seller of shrunken heads of the Amazonian tribes.
A10K: ESPECTÁCULO ROTATIVO
Mayra Morán
Chile/España
06:38
2021
An audiovisual proposal that intertwines material of an event occurred on October 2, 2020, in the context of the protests in Chile, and the words of Nona Fernández, invoking questions about the course that draws us.
KHON-TEMPORARY
Methas Chantawongs
Tailandia
04:14 min
2022
A project that was adapted from the word "Contemporary" in combination with "KHON", a traditional Thai mask dance drama, to be the contemporary animation/video based on its concept, performing and movement. Chantawongs has taken the movements of KHON as a base and digitally mixed them with colors and textures to present them together with the rearranged story of the original epic. It is about a character who made a mistake and was driven to the other side of the border of the gods and left in the place of humans to have new experiences and survive.
WÄREN SIE MAL BESSER ZU HAUSE GEBLIEBEN
Aline Juaréz
GERMANY
05:30 min
2020
La experiencia de una mujer POC, encarcelada por tomar fotos de una acción contra la exportación de armas durante el cierre de la pandemia en Berlín.
Grandma´s recipe
Daniela Miranda
Chile
11:00 min
2022
Cooking and memory come together in this short story that introduces us to the story of Ofelia Moreno, an activist who dedicated 40 years of her life to seek truth and justice for her family executed by the Chilean civil-military dictatorship, while cooking delicious gnocchi with tomato sauce (let the sauce boil!). Accompanied by an original soundtrack and landscapes of Santiago in the 80's.
POEMA EN SINCRO
Juan Ignacio Angaroni
Argentina
03:27 min
2022
A life archive implies an extensive variety of nuances. From absolute templance to the wildest vertigo. The structural walls of imposed beauty break under the heavy strike of fabulations we decide to create, new forms are born.
SPIRIT WOMAN
Adriana Ronquillo
Music: Ampersan
México
06:10 min
2020
Spirit Woman is an animation inspired by the ceremonial chants of Maria Sabina, Mazateca sage, connoisseur of indigenous medicine based on the understanding of flora and fauna. Mujer Espíritu is a hybrid animation that immerses us in the vision of the natural world through the music of the Mexican band Ampersan. This piece was created by La Furia Estudios and produced by Chancha Vía Circuito, with the aim offering a poem of light in uncertain times.
PASQUINES
Laura Carmona Hoyos
Colombia
07:52 min
2021
In a city obsessed with the absolute freedom of germs, rivers hide tainted truths.
LLUEVE
Carolina Corral Paredes & Magali Rocha Donnadieu
Mexico
11:21 min
2021
Animated documentary that tells the story of María, a mother who discovers that the Morelos prosecutor's office has buried her son and 115 other bodies in a hidden mass grave. Maria and her sister forced the government to open the grave and succeeded in recovering those buried there. Maria is guided by the rain. When it rains, it means that her son Oliver is sending her signs that he is on the right track in his struggle to recover the disappeared.
DEEP BLUE
Sebastian Wiedemann
Colombia
07:45 min
2020
Springs and Apneas between Worlds to resist and re-exist the pandemic. The power of the womb of the world. Faced with thousands of bodies that cannot breathe and die from Covid-19, this work reflects on the force of apnea as a way to access primal states of life. If Covid-19 is a consequence of anthropic actions, this work is proposed to be a gesture of resistance by appealing to a connection with the cosmos and the sources of life.
NO AMO BERLÍN
Alex Ríos
Alemania/Colombia
12:31 min
2020
An exciting journey through the false illusion of freedom, conscience and ecology in one of the most important capitals of Europe. Revealing the colonial, racist and extractivist context. The film is the result of research conducted by the director together with migrants in the streets of Berlin, in search of information about colonialism, migration and the current relations of Berlin and Germany with the countries of the global south.
LOOP
Pablo Polledri
SPAIN
08:00 min
2021
In this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again.
