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Filmed clandestinely over eight years at a city Zoo, the film is a sonic and visual journey where time unfolds differently. An intimate, furtive gaze: bored orangutans, turtles floating in darkness, gorillas that return our stare. A zoo built more than 130 years ago on the colonial logics of progress, where sadness and a strange beauty coexist today.
Vangelis spends one last day in Porto before moving back to Greece. The city holds memories of love and friendship, but now it's time for farewells.
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After consolidating itself as a tourist destination in the mid-1960s, this small coastal village has become the dormitory town for the workers of a Nuclear Power Plant. With the liberal promise of prosperity and socioeconomic wellfare, many workers left their homes to move to the small city and started working at the new Nuclear Power Plant. The collective unrest and the silence, cut off by the great gusts of wind, articulate the landscape of the village that is now under the aid of the Nuclear Power Plant.
In the final days of summer, a young ornithology student is about to leave the rural area where he has spent the past few months monitoring a bird population. Before leaving, he enters the forest with a friend to remove the markers that delineate his study area. As night falls, the walk through the woods becomes a farewell enveloped in memories and silences that surpass words.
What's on the other side of Fornells bay? Pepe el Malo is an urban legend or he really existed? This documentary doesn't try to shed light on the dark; it rather plays deftly with the ambiguities of a character that is part of the Menorcan imaginary.
