The Miracle of Almería

Original Title: Het Mirakel van Almería

Documentary | 3 x 50' | 2024 (Completed)

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Producer:

Emmy Oost

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The pressure of the European food system revealed by its people.

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synopsis

At the far end of Europe, on the southern border of Spain, lies Almería. It is home to Europe’s largest vegetable garden, and the place our tomatoes come from, even in winter. But behind all the plastic sheeting, strange things can happen. In The Miracle of Almería, farmers and migrant workers start a dialogue in order to understand how, in the space of 50 years, Almería grew from an empty desert, to a kingdom covered in plastic, to an exhausted wasteland. Through the use of imagination, we try to find the blind spots of our capitalist system.
In het zuiden van Spanje ligt Almería, een enorme provincie bedekt door wit plastic. In 50 jaar tijd slaagde deze regio erin uit te groeien van een dorre woestijn tot de grootste moestuin van Europa. Maar onder al dat plastic gebeuren vreemde dingen... In Het Mirakel van Almería tonen mensen uit de regio de blinde vlekken van het kapitalistische systeem. Elk vanuit hun eigen perspectief stellen ze filmscènes voor die een recente of minder recente herinnering verbeelden. Met behulp van hun vertel- en verbeeldingskracht, ontdekken we de onderliggende economische, politieke en sociale dynamieken. En de explosieve gevolgen daarvan in de samenleving.

Credits

Producer
Emmy Oost
Music
Jens Bouttery

Format

Creation details

Type
Series
Category
Doc
Production share
Majority Flemish Production
Belgium
Genre
Documentary
Year of production

2024
Production status
Completed
Original title
Het Mirakel van Almería
Original language
Spanish, Bambara, Arabic, Moroccan, French, Dutch

Technical specs

Running time
3 x 50'
Available in
2D
Aspect ratio
1.85:1
Sound format
5.1 (+ sub) Dolby
Available formats
DCP; Apple ProRes 422
Colour
Colour

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Festivals & awards

Festivals

2021: First Cut Lab (BE); Qumra (QA)

2020: Docs in Progress – Vision du Réel (CH)

2019: Venice Gap-Financing Market (IT)

2018: Medimed (ES)

2017: Docs in Thessaloniki (GR); CPH:FORUM (DK); DOK Leipzig Co-Pro Market (DE)

Awards

2020: DAE Encouragement Award at Visions du Réel (CH)

Partners

Co-production partners

BALDR Film, Lomotion AG

Supported by

Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Belgian Development Cooperation, VRT/Canvas, Corona Emergency Fund of the Flanders Government, Eurimages, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Netherlands Film Fund, Bern Film Fund, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Creative Europe MEDIA of the European Union, Doha Film Institute, Mediafonds - LEF stipend, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Kunsten en Erfgoed, Pascal Decroos Fund, Sabam for Culture, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government