Three children are playing war in an old green 2CV in the middle of a grassy area.
Lost in their abundant phantasmagoria, they are surprised when a loud noise of iron comes to disturb their imaginary representation... Like frightened sparrows, they fly at full speed in the skirts of their mothers and warn the families that a crane is about to remove the useless old carcass.
The beginning of
Nos soleils
, by Carla Simón, sounds like a violent warning.
Finished playing, seems to say the director of
Summer 93
(silver bear in 2017).
We are on his land, in Catalonia, in the region of Algarràs, where a large family of farmers has been cultivating peaches for several generations.
Sharecroppers from father to son, these farmers must face a threat linked to their owner, who wants to cut down the peach trees to replace them with more profitable solar panels.
Uncompromising naturalism
Family chronicle on the last harvest of a farm dedicated…
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