Cambium

Name: Cambium
Start: 2025-05-08UTC16:00
Location: CINETECA - Sala Azcona

Marina Lameiro

Maddi Barber

Spain

2024

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Synopsis

Sensorial and provocative documentary that captures the process of transformation of a territory in the Pyrenees of Navarra through a beautiful expired 16mm footage. In their attempt to recover former crop and grazing fields for their livestock, a community decides to cut down a pine forest planted as part of a state reforestation initiative. The film traces the changing landscape, exploring a process marked as much by the violence of deforestation as by the care for the natural environment. With a masterful use of image texture, the documentary creates a unique visual language that brings us closer to the ecological and spiritual reality of the transformation of the community's ecosystem and economy. (RS)

Festivals

2024 - Visions du Réel - Nyon International Film Festival
2024 - L'Alternativa - Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona
2024 - Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
2024 - Los trabajos y las noches - Festival de cine y procesos artísticos - Special mention
2025 - Punto de Vista - Internacional Documentary Film Festival

Director biography

Marina Lameiro

Marina Lameiro is a filmmaker and producer. She has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the URJC and a Master's degree in Creative Documentary from IDEC-UPF and a Postgraduate Degree in Audiovisual Editing from the same university. She was a resident artist at the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio (CoLab) in New York City.
In 2018, she released her award-winning first feature film Young & Beautiful, which earned the Special Audience Award at the 2018 Punto de Vista Festival, was nominated for the Feroz Awards and has been shown in over 20 countries. In 2021, she released her second feature Dardara, which made the list of 10 most viewed films in cinemas after its premiere at the Punto de Vista festival.
Her most recent work, Paraiso, made its international premiere at the FidMarseille festival and has been shown at various international festivals such as the Reykjavik International Film Festival and the Black Canvas festival in Mexico.

Maddi Barber

Maddi Barber (Valle de Arce, 1988) studied audiovisual communication at the University of the Basque Country and did her Master's degree in visual anthropology at the University of Manchester.
Her work has been shown at festivals such as Visions du Réel (Nyon), San Sebastián (Zabaltegi, Donostia), Curtocircuito (Santiago), FidMarseille (Marseille), Open City (London) or Reykjavik Film Festival (Reykjavik), among others; it has also been exhibited at art centers such as the Oteiza Museum (Alzuza), Domus Artium (Salamanca), La Panera (Lleida), Artium Museoa (Vitoria-Gasteiz) or the Museum of Fine Arts (Bilbao)
In 2019 she created the production company Pirenaika, with which she has produced some of her own films as well as those of other locally-based artists and filmmakers such as Gerard Ortin, Ainhoa Gutiérrez and Irati Gorostidi. Her latest co-production, Contadores, by Irati Gorostidi, had its international premiere at the Semaine de la Critique at Cannes.
She is currently doing a Ikusmira Berriak residency at Tabakalera, where she is developing the feature film Claros del bosque.

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