Screening – Official Competition (Documentaries)

The 4 Kings. The sanctuary in Halmahera Sea. Karlos Simón. Spain, 2023 (33’)

There is still a space in our seas where the seabed resists the attacks that the oceans are suffering.

This documentary will open the doors of a destination as remote as Raja Ampat to awesome landscapes, green lagoons, white beaches, its marine life and curiosities of many of the species that inhabit its reefs.

More than 1,600 different fish, 75% of the coral species known in the world and representatives of almost all animal groups. From small mollusks to large vertebrates, make Raja Ampat one of the most diverse underwater ecosystems on the planet.

A place where they have known how to combine their growing development with sustainable tourism, everyone doing their bit to make this paradise a true sanctuary of landscapes, life and color.

Patagonia Aventure  – Recerca climàtica al desert de gel. Andreas Ewels. Germany. 2023  (28‘)

For the climate researchers, many areas in the Patagonian ice sheet are still unknown places and can hardly be reached. A young German scientist who has been cooperating with Chilean scientists for years has now ventured on a unique project. Together with the best-known German mountaineers Robert Jasper and Jörn Heller, he dared an extreme expedition in which the weather was the greatest enemy. Only the construction of a snow cave saved them from a great catastrophe. At the same time, another catastrophe is taking its course: the changes caused by climate change in the Patagonian ice sheet are more dramatic than previously assumed.