Iyán Rojo
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Documentary · 2019

TIERRA

Don Adolfo, the village schoolteacher, was murdered in Sahelices del Río during the Spanish Civil War. Testimonies and an investigation uncover a village with a great deal to tell.

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Year
2019
Format
Documentary
Location
Sahelices del Río, Castilla y León
My role
Direction and edit

The film

TIERRA starts from a name: don Adolfo, the schoolteacher of Sahelices del Río, a small village in Castilla y León, murdered during the Civil War. Through the testimonies of the people who still live there and an investigation that follows every lead, the documentary uncovers a village that has a great deal to tell.

A film about memory, made street by street: the processions, the doorways, the fields at harvest time, and the voices that remember.

Stills

Two girls on bicycles reflected in a round traffic mirror against a blue sky
A tractor raising dust across a harvested field below the village
An elderly woman with a cane leaning against a large wooden door
An elderly woman with a white headscarf resting on a chair in a courtyard
Priests and neighbours walking in a procession through the village
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Direction & edit: Iyán Rojo
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