Don Benjamín

Spain2024documentary29'International Short Competition

An unpretentious and poetic journey through a magical, endangered region of the Amazon rainforest in Bolivia. Don Benjamin is a forest ranger. Together with his family, he lives off the treasures of the Amazon jungle. It provides them with food, medicine, tools as well as a divine element. Unfortunately, due to regular forest logging for agriculture, the surface of the green lungs of Earth is beginning to shrink drastically. Deforestation leads to serious changes in the natural environment, which has a negative impact on the entire planet. People living in the jungle are trying to restore the original state of the areas stripped bare of any trees.

Awards
  • Short film competition
    Silver Dragon for the best short documentarySilver Dragon
directed by
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Ivan ZahínosQ&A guest

For over 10 years, he has produced and co-written documentaries in Africa and Europe that have received national and international recognitions, highlighting the Goya 2023 as producer of “Maldita. A Love Song to Sarajevo”. His debut documentary film as a director, “Don Benjamín”, is based on key themes of his cinematographic vision: the inhospitable realities and the people who live in them, which help him to understand and explain the world, art as a mestizo territory, and image as an exercise of visual poetry.

production
Ivan Zahínos, Francesc Álvarez (En los Confines Producciones, Medicusmundi Mediterrània)
Photo
Kadr z filmu Don Benjamín
Trailer