Cymraeg The Screening
We are hosting a screening on 3rd September at 8pm. However, if you cannot make the screening at this time, you can still buy a ticket and after this content becomes available on September 3rd at 8pm, you’ll have 7 days to start watching. Once you begin, you’ll have 48 hours to finish watching the film.
Tickets
Tickets are available to everyone but when you book your tickets, you will see different ticket categories (LWA member or supporter, not a member or supporter of the LWA), so please choose the category relevant to you. The first 20 tickets are available at Early Bird prices, and tickets are available on a sliding scale.
If you are not a member of the LWA but would like to find out more about our membership options, please visit our website. Our memberships start at an annual fee of £25. To join us as a supporter, from £3/month, please visit our supporters’ webpage.
Q&A
BEFORE the screening (7.30pm) we are hosting a livestream discussion.
About Landless
It’s 2015, and a group of members of the huge Landless Workers’ Movement in Brazil has occupied a plot of land near a factory. They’re fighting against unequal rights to agricultural land, and demanding land for themselves. Major landowners focus mainly on large-scale agriculture; the impoverished population fears the consequences of monoculture and the use of insecticides.
We follow the group over the course of four years as they live out their lives in an improvised camp, where they work the land, devise strategies and dream of a better world. The rhythm is calm, with the camera alternating between gorgeous long shots and close-ups of weathered faces. These people are clearly connected with their land, but totally at the mercy of the caprices of national politics and the global economy. The texts shown at the end of the film give little reason for hope: the new President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro calls on landowners to defend their property—with violence if necessary—and describes members of the Landless Workers’ Movement as enemies of the state.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/ZV2DDJdUIY8
