Film Seaton: Toxic Environments

Film season: Toxic Environments

Cenizas del cielo (José Antonio Quirós, 2008)

OV with Spanish subtitles, an introduction and a discussion.

Free entry, limited capacity

Ferguson, a Scottish adventurer and writer of guidebooks, visits northern Spain to finish writing his latest book. Forced to stay there, he becomes friends with Federico, a farmer who believes that the power plant that pollutes the valley will be closed thanks to the Kyoto protocol. Federico will show Ferguson the unique lives of the characters living in that threatened microcosm: Cristina, a woman with two children; a couple who believes that they can’t have children because of the power plants; a miner who took early retirement and is obsessed with gold; and a fisherman who fishes everything except fishes. Little by little, Ferguson will get involved in Federico’s struggle against the power plant