The demand for places has forced the organization to expand its offer. Two sessions for each walk that doubles the number of people who can enjoy them. And that even so has been forced to leave a considerable number of applicants on the waiting list.
The traditional walks of the Festival, which this year follow the path of recovery from different crises in the history of Lanzarote, began today with "Memory scenarios: fishing and the canning industry in Arrecife". Visit that will be repeated this Sunday at the same time for another group of attendees.
The Festival continues with its programming this Saturday, already inside the cinema, at 6:30 p.m. With 'Songs for after a war', by Basilio Martín Patino, about cultural propaganda during Franco's regime. And at 9.15 p.m. With 'Black Rain', by Shohei Imamura, about life in Japan after the atomic bomb.
The walks are an activity that the Festival launched three years ago in line with its Trasfoco section, whose objective is to connect the island with some of its essential elements, and to get to know emblematic places with the help of great experts. In this turbulent 2020, the walks visit areas that went through moments of crisis inventing new ways of life.
The first walk, with the maximum number of people allowed covered, has traveled the road that connects Arrecife with the old canneries of Lloret and Llinares, Ojeda and Garavilla, witnesses of the development of fishing and the canning industry in Arrecife. Led by the archaeologist and professor, Sanjo Fuentes Luis, the people who have enjoyed this walk have connected Lanzarote with its fishing past and the canning industry. In addition, the route reached a panoramic view of the salt flats and Portonao Bay. An experience that can lead us, as many of the participants have commented, to understand the importance that other production processes came to have on the island of Lanzarote.
In its film program, the section 'Trasfoco: And life goes on...' screens, at 6:30 p.m. 'Songs for after a war', by Basilio Martín Patino. A film that reflects the machinery of popular culture that was launched during Franco's regime to exalt the victors and degrade the vanquished, mainly through the couplet, but also from thousands of comics, films and newsreels designed to praise the new dictatorship.
At 9.15 p.m., 'Black Rain', by Shohei Imamura, is broadcast. A film about how Japanese society recovered from the brutal bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even in that post-war context, the inhabitants of a rural village and a small family of survivors rebuild their lives looking with hope and illusion towards the future.
The session this Sunday 29 continues within the Section 'Trasfoco: And life goes on...', which addresses how different communities overcame major crises.
At 6:30 p.m. the film 'Judgment at Nuremberg', by Stanley Kramer, will be screened. It will be in El Almacén.
