A film program focused on climate change in collaboration with SALT
As part of the 2024 summer film program, the Lumbardhi Foundation, in collaboration with Salt, presents a selection of “Is this our last chance?”, a decade-long film program calling attention to climate change and its vast impact on humans, nature, and the world.
Initiated in 2015 by Salt, the program encourages reconsideration of people’s actions on the environment and biodiversity through talks and documentary screenings from various geographies exploring diverse themes, actions, and inquiries into environmental issues related to climate change.
The documentary From the Wild Sea (2021) focuses on the collision between humans and nature, offering perspectives from both sides; we get to explore solitary life in Geographies of Solitude (2022), singularly portrayed by an environmentalist. From capturing the disappearance of the scientific caretakers of nature in Fauna (2023), we jump to new ways of labor organization in a goldmine factory in Utopia Revisited and then to rethinking nature as the sole provider of life continuation in Longyearbyen, A Bipolar City (2016). From economics to survival, we explore the nature and social hierarchies in Mothers of the Land to seed worldwide transportation in Wild Relatives (2018), where layered experiences spanning economics, survival, and environmental issues are explored.
The program is presented in collaboration with Salt, founded by Garanti BBVA, with the support of the European Cultural Foundation and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport.
Program:
July 2024
07.07.2024
FROM THE WILD SEA
Directed by Robin Petré
Denmark, 2021 – Documentary – 78 min.
From the Wild Sea is a poetic documentary film that zooms in on the complex collision between humans and nature. It takes us on a disturbing and fascinating journey into the emerging Anthropocene Era, seen from both the human and animal perspectives.
13.07.2024
GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE
Directed by Jacquelyn Mills
Canada, 2022 – Documentary – 104 min.
Environmentalist Zoe Lucas has cataloged flora and fauna on Sable Island, a thin strip of land off the Canadian coast, for decades. Zoe, the island’s only full-time human inhabitant, embarks on solitary excursions to observe the dunes, starry skies, wild horses, and washed-up plastic waste.
17.07.2024
FAUNA
Directed by Pau Faus
Spain, 2023 – Documentary – 74 min.
On the outskirts of Barcelona, a farmer and his herd live next door to a hi-tech lab that performs animal testing. The farmer—suffering from a bone disease—witnesses the disappearance of his profession, while the scientists are busier than ever.
31.07.2024
UTOPIA REVISITED
Directed by Kurt Langbein
Germany – 2018 – Documentary – 91 min.
This is a documentary about alternative economic projects like a fair trade goldmine or a tea factory that is owned by its workers.
AUGUST
16.08.2024
MOTHERS OF THE LAND
Directed by Alvaro Sarmiento, Diego Sarmiento
Peru, 2019 – Documentary -74 min.
In the Andean worldview, women and the earth are strongly interrelated. Both are capable of giving and nurturing life. Mothers of the Land accompanies five women in their daily struggle to maintain a traditional and organic way of working the land.
23.08.2024
LONGYEARBYEN, A BIPOLAR CITY
Directed by Manuel Deiller
France - 2016 – Documentary – 56 min.
In the Arctic, the Norwegian city of Longyearbyen, located in the Svalbard archipelago, has been extracting coal for one hundred years as an energetic and economic source, which stirs many environmental paradoxes.
30.08.2024
WILD RELATIVES
Directed by Jumana Manna
Germany, Lebanon, Norway - 2018 – Documentary – 66 min.
Wild Relatives follows the matrix of hierarchies and relationships involved in a seed transaction between the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen in Svalbard, an island in the Arctic Ocean, and the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon.
Lumbardhi Foundation organized a special screening of Protocinema’s “Permanent Spring, Delayed Bloom”, a video program curated by Aslı Seven, for the BA students of the Faculty of Art, Department of Conceptual Art, class on video installation led by Driton Selmani.
The one-hour program of selected single-channel videos that premiered in Istanbul in June, travelled to additional venues worldwide including screenings at Lumbardhi between October 23-26.
The video program showcases works by Sofia Gallisa Muriente, Ahmet Öğüt, Deniz Tortum & Kathryn Hamilton, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Emre Hüner and Minia Biabiany that reflect on environments built as "scapes" - landscape, cyberscape, mindscape, mobilizing multiple spatial and temporal scales.
The realization of this program has been supported by Raiffeisen Bank in Kosovo
"Proka" marks the poetics of the distinctive style of the prominent and internationally known director Isa Qosja.
Lumbardhi is honored to have hosted the screening after which the process of making the film, Qosja's cinematography as a whole and moments from his career were discussed during a conversation at Dokukino that took place after the screening of the film on October 31, at 18:00.
When the individual does not resemble others and sees things from their own perspective, does not insult or offend anyone, it is unavoidably confronted with the environment of gossip of those who are static and obey. He conflicts with those in power that want to discipline and show authoritarianism. Proka is an unfortunate character, one who does not harm anyone, minds his business, loves sincerely, takes care of relatives but ends tragically.
The film is known for the panoramic latitudes of unusual environments and its well-sculpted characters.
Every evening between October 27 and 31, starting at 18:00, some of the cult films produced by Kosovafilm were presented by Lumbardhi Foundation at Dokukino.
Kosovafilm: Fragments screened 5 films from those discordant years.
The realization of the program was made possible by Raiffeisen Bank, Swiss Development Cooperation, Municipality of Prizren and KTV.
“Can Laughter Break Bricks?” brings a selection of films where cinema and laughter, subversion and the carnival, collective will and humour meet. All of the films selected from the early decades of the cinema and from the two geographical poles, present laughter as a radical act and a starting point for critical thinking.
This film program was made possible with the support of Raiffeisen Bank in Kosovo, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and KOHA group.
Lumbardhi is pleased to host the intriguing film program by Habibi Collective: “Women's Stories from SWANA".
Habibi Collective’s founder Róisín Tapponi presents four documentaries that depict the lives and stories of resilient and witty women from South-West Asia and North Africa. From a grandmother fed up with men to a group of socialist women fighting for their rights, this group of women show the diversity of feminist narratives and the humane power of documentary filmmaking.
Detailed descriptions of the documentaries to be screened in the upcoming two weeks will follow! Stay tuned!
This program was developed in partnership with Habibi Collective, with the support of Raiffeisen Bank in Kosovo and Koha Group.
4 For 20! Warming up for Dokufest
As August is getting closer, the approaching energy of one of the most exceptional festivals in the region can be felt! This year, Dokufest will be celebrating its 20th edition! While the festival preparations are being finalised, the artistic director of the festival, Veton Nurkollari has picked 4 ingenious and incredibly delicious films to be screened for a warm-up program hosted by Lumbardhi.
Within the scope of the program KINO, 'Sundays in Kino’ will bring to the big screen some of the most intriguing and landmark films from the history of cinema. Come and enjoy the screenings beneath the open sky, every Sunday at 20:30, between June 6th-July 4th at Kino Bahçe!
“Sundays in Kino” is supported by the French Embassy, Institute Francais and the “Cultural Spaces of Kosovo" project, financed by the European Union.
Empty Bottles From a Far Away Country: Chris Marker Retrospective, marks the 100th birthday anniversary of the great film director who shaped the cinema and art of the century. Since the beginning of his practice, Chris Marker, was very sensitive and drawn to the worldwide political struggles and how these changes could be grasped in the form of film. The result of his life-long combative and artistic pursuit led him to deal with the memories of anti-colonial struggles taking place far away but still very close to his country. His films, which are included in this retrospective, geographically expand from Siberia to Bosnia, from Japan to Kosovo, creating a global and historical constellation of those struggles. “Who remembers all that?”, he asks in one of his essay-films referring to the continues as bottles: “history throws its empty bottles out the window.” This retrospective tries to collect and bring some of those bottles, to show the world from forgotten angles.
Films will be screened with albanian and english subtitles. Free entrance.
‘Empty Bottles From a Far Away Country: Chris Marker Retrospective’ is supported by the French Embassy and “Cultural Spaces of Kosovo" project, financed by the European Union.