ACMI and IIC Melbourne present a double bill of films for the senses from MDFF sidebars: Food (A God In Every Lentil) and Bloom (Flores).
A God in Every Lentil (2018, 94′) by Miguel Ángel Jiménez.
Luis, a screenwriter who lives in Madrid with his wife Paula and infant son, journeys to Cocentaina, his childhood home in the hinterland of Alicante, in Spain’s Valencia region. He’s heading there to collaborate with his chef brother Kiko Moya and sommelier cousin Alberto Redrado on a book focused on the family’s Michelin star-awarded restaurant, L’Escaleta, regularly listed among the best restaurants in Spain and Portugal.
Screens with Flores ( 2017, 27′) by Jorge Jácome.
The entire local population of the Azores archipelago was forced to move to mainland Portugal due to an uncontrolled proliferation of hydrangeas which colonised the landscape, taking over the native flora, when collectors introduced the lilac blooms to the island in the nineteenth century. Jorge Jácome’s evocative short film is a poetic and politically-inflected work that muses on history, identity, belonging and adaptability.
Screening dates and time
Sat 21 May 2022, 6:30pm
Sun 29 May 2022, 1:45pm
Where
Cinemas, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square
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