The Canarian documentary "Aldecoa, the flight to paradise" has been selected in the 29th edition of the Bogotá Film Festival, in Colombia, which will be held from October 10. In addition, "The Petrified Seas. Domingo López Torres", also of Canarian authorship, will also be screened. The director of both documentaries is Miguel G. Morales, who will compete in the "Documentary on Art" section.
"Aldecoa, the flight to paradise" is a production of TVE and Tuco Films, which has the collaboration of the Government of the Canary Islands and Volcano Films. The work, made in 2011, addresses the relationship of the writer Ignacio Aldecoa with the Canary Islands, especially with La Graciosa. Aldecoa, one of the best narrators of the so-called generation of the 50s in Spain, shared life and friendship with Rafael Azcona, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Carmen Martín Gaite or Jesús Fernández Santos, among others.
His travel book "Cuaderno de Godo", about his stay in La Graciosa in the late 50s, inspires this documentary film by Morales, under the original idea of Juan Cruz. It mixes vital episodes with landscapes of his journey in search of a possible paradise. In addition to the Canary Islands, his places were New York, Ibiza or Madrid.
For its part, "The Petrified Seas" tells the last years of the Tenerife poet Domingo López Torres, who died prematurely in 1937 at the age of 29.