Secció: Collita

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

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

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 commemorative look at Ireland’s enormous contribution to the culinary and beverage world….Read more

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