With music as a vehicle for unity, Argentine Wine brings together great artists to celebrate National Drink Day with an epic version of “Juntos a la par”, a song that is already an anthem. The piece travels through the mountains, vineyards and wineries of Mendoza in a deep connection between wine and music as two…Read more
Archives: Pel·lícules
Pel·lícula
Terroir
A sommelier student observes the work of young winegrowers around Lantignié for a year. The seasons change, and with them the colors, sounds, rhythm of nature and human labor….Read more
Les Planes del vent. La terra asfaltada
Three years of extreme drought have left many farmers in a very fragile situation. When it is so difficult to live from working the land, more than one considers abandoning the work of a lifetime. Industrial developers, businessmen and speculators find the right conditions to buy the land, often with the complicity of municipal governments…Read more
That’s wine!
Series. Episode One: Lebanese winemaking dates back to the Phoenicians, who pioneered the export of wine across the Mediterranean, introducing it to Greece, Italy and Cyprus. Later, the Romans built Bacchus Castle in the fertile Bekaa Valley. This episode explores Lebanon’s oldest modern winery and its French roots, tracing how winemaking survived civil war and…Read more
Mutsoóngo Malaávu
Palm wine is a fermented alcoholic beverage extracted from the top of the palm tree. In West Africa it is associated with ancestors, as it is an important substance for the constitution of people and bodies. With an ethnographic perspective and an experimental approach, the film shows the routine of a palm wine taster in…Read more
A Sip of Irish
A commemorative look at Ireland’s enormous contribution to the culinary and beverage world….Read more
C’est quoi, les levures indigènes?
Native yeasts are extraordinary. They are tiny fungi that transmit to us, with great diversity, the aromas of our terroir through fermentation. But they are also unpredictable, and the desire for control pushes some winemakers to neutralize them. Discover their little-known history in a fun way….Read more
Atajo
In the Chilean countryside of the 1940s, Laureano, a farm worker, suffers from insomnia. Unhappy with his reality, after finding a revolver that he believes is cursed, he is driven to become a bandit….Read more
Les raisins du Reich: La collaboration dans les vignes
Legend has it that during the Occupation, the great wine regions of France were plundered by Nazi Germany. Recent work by specialized historians shows that the reality is quite different. In search of a memory that has been deliberately hidden, the documentary mixes archival images with expert interviews and real interventions by winegrowers….Read more
Vino Juana la Loca – La carta
After the death of her husband, Juana finds herself hopeless and afraid. Rumors of a plot to take her place and imprison her keep surfacing….Read more