30/09/2022 - From 5th to 11th October, Madrid becomes the home of cinema and sustainability with 34 impressive titles at this event that can also be followed online

The eighth Another Way Film Festival (AWFF) will be held in different locations in the Spanish capital between Wednesday 5th and Tuesday 11th October, keeping its online option through  Another Platform and Filmin. The event includes 34 titles over seven sections that address issues such as climate change and its consequences, deforestation, the consequences of mass tourism, the loss of biodiversity and respecting sustainable values.

Once again this year, the festival provides thought-provoking and sensitive films that help to understand the current climate situation, its causes, effects, great complexity and possible solutions. Along with parallel activities, its main narrative is raising awareness on the environment and citizen activation. The screenings will be accompanied by discussions with environmental experts, from the scientific community and large organisations, to initiate a conversation between institutions, organisations, associations, NGOs and the public. 

The opening film will be Invisible Demons, directed by Rahul Jain, a production between India, Finland, Germany and the United States, which was screened at the last Cannes Film Festival and is part of its Official Section, completed by other feature-length documentaries: Silence of the Tides [+see also:
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film profile], a Swedish production from Jennifer Rainsford; Icare, ou la mesure des choses (Belgium/France/Luxembourg), by Patric Jean; Lagunaria (Italy), by Giovanni Pellegrini; The Territory [+see also:
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film profile] (Brazil/Denmark/United States), by Alex Pritz; Pleistocene Park, by American Luke Grisworld Tergis; The Last Tourist (Canada), by Tyson Sadler; and Mata (Brazil/Norway), by Ingrid Fadnes and Fabio Nascimento.

The competition section, Rueda por el cambio (RXC), features a national and an international category. The nine Spanish short films will compete for the Young Jury Award, with a €600 cash prize. This year, the international competition returns with seven short films from countries such as Peru, Ukraine and Italy: the winner (with the most views) will receive €400. The international selection is available on the website and on the event’s YouTube channel.

The non-competition sections include Origins, with three classic titles: Robinson Crusoe (1954) by Luis Buñuel, Moby Dick (1956) by John Huston and Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931), directed by F.W. Murnau.

Another non-competition section is Produced in Green, associated with one of the festival's activities (training for committed filmmakers), although it is possible to attend its screenings independently: it includes three films that have reduced their carbon footprint in their production: Everything Will Change [+see also:
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And AWFF and the Institut Français de Madrid are giving actor Nico Romero (Riot Police [+see also:
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interview: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
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film profile] by Flore Vasseur, a documentary nominated for the César Awards and produced by Marion Cotillard. In addition, Ophir, a poetic but dramatic ode that analyses the visible and invisible chains of colonisation, will be shown for the first time in Madrid, where one of its directors, Olivier Pollet, will be there to present it.

All information about the festival, with its sections, venues, times and activities, can be found on its website.

(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)