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After my grandfather 's Baek-su (age 99’s birthday party) banquet, asking me to write an autobiography for him. Two years later, he passed away and left his favor as homework to me. I discovered the history of the past that I could not associate with his name. As a filmmaker, I frequently attended burials that were far from my life. I have been living in the United States for a while, and I have often come to think about the country and nationality.
The documentary tells how, during the 1980s, a cultural phenomenon emerged and developed in Galicia that would eventually become known as the Movida Gallega.
Dreaming of better lands, from generation to generation, because of poverty, hunger and wars, we voyage across the seas. Geography is destiny. Do our bodies retain the memories of our grandfathers; are memories of running away in search of better lands imprinted on our bodies?
From a snake charmer to a welder, from a weaver to an obstetrician, the inhabitants of the holy city of Varanasi are striving for survival, and transform and ennoble themselves in the process. A hypnotic study of people at work—a street beggar, a surgeon, a weaver, a priest, a masseur, a tabla drum maker, and a crane operator: people who in their intense concentration and ritualized movements evoke the idea of human labor as an act of spiritual devotion and social interdependence. Filmed largely in India’s ancient holy city of Varanasi
A film essay, a personal story, a tribute to the mothers and families of premature babies, at-risk newborns and the vulnerable disadvantaged.
Perhaps now overshadowed by the figures of the excluded or the immigrant, workers have been portrayed in cinema mostly in the context of conflicts or as castaways of progress and globalization. But beyond these demands, who are these workers today? What has become of their lives? How have their dreams and visions been transformed?