Country: South Africa
Year: 2022
Duration: 30 min
Synopsis:
“What the Soil Remembers” examines the trauma of a community uprooted during the Apartheid regime, making way for an educational institution that would become synonymous with the foundation of white supremacist ideologies. The film follows a group of elders who illuminate the screen with their approach to the problem. The collective wisdom and patience embedded in their actions is what a nationalist regime tried to violently take away from them years earlier.
Link to the trailer: https://vimeo.com/769014446
December 5, 18:00 - screening of the film "What the Soil Remembers" directed by Jose Cardoso (18+). Screening with subtitles + in one block with the film "Dordoi City" directed by Tomiris Orozoeva.
Place: Dom Kino, large hall, 88 Mira Ave.December 6, 13:00 - repeat screening of "What the Soil Remembers" directed by Jose Cardoso (18+). The film is shown in its original language with Russian subtitles + in one block with the film "Dordoi City" directed by Tomiris Orozoeva.
Place: Dom Kino, art-loft, 88 Mira Ave.
José Cardoso
Biography
José Cardoso, filmmaker, illustrator and graphic designer. He has developed fiction, animation and documentary films, on themes revolving around surrealism, consciousness and anti-colonialism.
After being selected for his first feature film “Iwianch, The Devil Deer” at the 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival, he won the Tom Berman Award for the most promising filmmaker. His work has been awarded with the IFFR Rotterdam (Netherlands, 2023), Regina International Film Festival (Canada 2023), Ícaro (Guatemala, 2022), FINCALI (Colombia 2021), Premio Colibrí (Ecuador, 2022), Anim!arte (Brasil, 2021), CSFF (China, 2019) and many others.
He worked for BBC as film director of the chapter in Ecuador of the series: “The Femicide Detectives”.
José is now editing and producing “Behind the Mist”, a documentary by experienced director Sebastián Cordero.