

9 minutes to make you cry over dirt and hope. Yes, really.
Bariloche, 2023. A group of volunteers travel to the burned forest to carry out a planting day, where Dani and others explain the importance of planting trees.
Cinematography
Ash and green in brutal, tender contrast.
Direction
Abad lets silence do the heavy lifting.

Director
Valentina Abad
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Valentina Abad was 22 when she made this—her thesis film for Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires.
Argentina's 2021-2022 fire season destroyed over 1,600 hectares in Nahuel Huapi National Park; this documents one small act of refusal against that scale of loss.