THE INVISIBLE CITY: VOICES IN THE CAÑADA REAL GALIANA directed by Lucía Mbomio Rubio

FESTIVALS

Ekotopfilm Festival – Slovakia – 2008 - Prize of the Association of Towns and Communities of Slovakia.
Document 6 Film Festival - UK - 2008
International Community Film Festival - UK - 2008
Festival de Cine de Pamplona - Educative Section - Spain - 2008
Muestra internacional de documental etnografico - Puerto Rico - 2009
Festival International du Film de l'environnement - Túnez - 2009

 



Flying stones, screams, rubber balls, riot control forces, policemen on one side, and Maghrebians and Spaniards, on the other. Abdulís house is demolished. He is a Moroccan mason living in the CaÒada Real Galiana, an ancient cattle track. 40 years of history start being questioned. Four decades of occupation of public land, 40,000 neighbours from four different communities: Spaniards, Muslims, Spanish gypsies and Romanians.

Luxury dwellings, shacks, pushers, drug addicts, volunteers, employers, nobodies and over 10,000 children. No hospitals, neither schools, nor sheep. Forty years after the arrival of the first settlers to the Cañada Real Galiana, this is the scenario of a 16 km linear city located in the autonomous region of Madrid: the largest illegal settlement in Europe.

The peaceful and lawless city of yesteryear has lately become ìa settlement of injusticeî which is daily haunted by two dramas: poverty, on the one hand, as its inhabitants are those forgotten by a society which intends to recycle them close to an incinerator and, crime and drug dependency, on the other, which are the direct consequence of such misery.

Through the inhabitants of this lawless city, by means of their voices and the testimony of their lives, the documentary "The Invisible City: Voices in the Cañada Real Galiana" aims at getting closer to the different realities that coexist, on a daily basis in this 16 km long path.

TITLE IN ENGLISH: The Invisible City
PRODUCTION COMPANY AntropoDocus Producciones S.L.
GENRE Documentary
RUNNING TIME 54 '
ORIGINAL VERSION Spanish
SUBTITLES English
SHOOTING FORMAT Video DV
COLOR Color
SOUND Estereo
YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2008
DIRECTOR Lucía Asuè Mbomío Rubio
MUSIC Fernando Alandes (música original)
FOTOGRAFÍA José Ignacio Galán - Ignacio Goytre
EDITING Victor Quintanilla
POSTPRODUCTION Alejandro Jiménez
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Antonio Cadierno Parodi
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT José Ignacio Galán Ugartemendía
PRODUCTION MANAGER Aleksandra Cheuvreux
GRAPHIC DESIGN Sophie Raynaud