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The Sea of Music in its 18th edition turns his way to Africa and, as usual, in addition to their music, their parallel activities such as film, art and literature, will focus on this continent.
In the coming weeks to check all the side events of the festival, but I can confirm that the film series will be closed by the film Children of the clouds, Ã Alvaro Longoria and produced by actor Javier Bardem.
The film will screen on Friday July 27th at 19:30 pm in the Nuevo Teatro Circo, look inside the loop film about Africa.
A film will not change the world, but discloses a reality and brings awareness, says the actor and producer of the documentary on the Sahara conflict.
Javier Bardem is mindful of the trip he made four years ago with his brother Charles and a group of actors and directors to the Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf, where they held the V edition of International Film Festival of the Sahara (FiSahara).
The memory of the days he spent with the Saharawi people, with those over 200,000 people who were Spanish and are abandoned in the desert for more than three decades, has resulted in children from the clouds, the last colony, documentary screened as part of the Sea of ​​Music.
The documentary is the second as a producer and actor Canary first as producer Alvaro Longoria Ã. Narrated by Elena Anaya, the documentary attempts to capture every pose, from the leaders of the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab à or Morocco and Algeria , the powers like the U.S. or France in the conflict, the Spanish state, which was the former colony Western Sahara, or the United Nations.
The documentary examines the current political turmoil in northern Africa and the responsibility of the Western powers (especially the U.S. and France) through the exercise of Realpolitik (foreign policy based on practical and economic interests rather than ethical or theoretical ) in international political strategies.
These policies have created great instability which finally caused great violence and chaos.
The film focuses on the situation in Western Sahara, Africa's last colony according to the UN, and a region on the brink of war.
The film is a personal journey in which Bardem guide the audience through the tortuous path of global diplomacy and the terrible reality of an abandoned village, seeking to understand how we got into this situation and how it could avoid another war in Africa.
The world is like and a movie is not going to change it, but it discloses a reality and bring awareness.
There is some public does not know what is happening in that region and those who know they want to know more, he added Bardem in one of the meetings with the press to present the film.
Sons of the clouds, which has been shown at festivals in Malaga, Berlin, Human Rights Film San Sebastian, and he has won in the last FiSahara the White Camella, the symbol of peace for the Saharawi people, is granite Sand Bardem, an actor involved in several charitable causes. There is something extraordinary.
Many people get wet.
There are countless injustices to be on the street 24 hours.
We must do everything we can, highlights Bardem, who stresses that is no stranger to the reality around him.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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