The Land is Whispering: Imagine Otherwise!

The land is whispering, through forests in resistance, over eroded mountains, in the remains of forgotten commons. It murmurs through refugee camps and mining scars, through songs of collective dissonance and resonance. Its voice trembles in the chants of people defending the land, in the breath of the desert wind carrying sediments of memories, in histories shared on top of oaks, and in the rhythms of ancestral futures.

What would the land whisper if we would listen attentively? What does it mean to bear witness to ecological collapse, dehumanization, and genocide? How can we build shared political horizons for emancipation in defense of the earth? What are the new political subjectivities and alliances emerging on the cusp of revolutionary times? And how does independent cinema and collective filmmaking approach territories, communities, and social movements, challenging oppression on political, economic, and aesthetic fronts?

The film series is an invitation to listen to the dispossessed, the dissidents, the dreamers and the more-than-humans. Each film is a shard of memory, a gesture of refusal and/or affirmation. Together, they form a constellation of social and ecological struggles, where the earth itself becomes archive, witness, and insurgent, offering a shared space for learning from each other’s experience of authoritarian transformations, seeking for moments of encounter, imagination and weaving alliances.

The land is whispering: Imagine Otherwise! is a collaborative project with the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies, curated by Sílvia das Fadas (Cinema Fulgor) and Nafis Fathollahzadeh (IRGAC).