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On 1 November 1755 an earthquake destroyed the city of Lisbon. Its impact was such that it displaced man from the center of creation. Its ruins legitimized Enlightened Despotism. Lisbon today is trembling again, shaken by a tourist earthquake that transforms the city at cruising speed. Its impact displaces the inhabitant of the center of the city. What new absolutisms will find their alibi here? As the right to the city collapses, drowned by the discourse of identity and the authentic, the city creaks announcing the collapse and the urgency of a new way of looking at us, of reacting to a transformation, this time predictable, that the despair of the Capitalism pretends inevitable.

WESTERN: SAHARA documented the pre-production of an audiovisual participatory project at Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria. From the trailer as part of media coverage, participants imagine a film about the creation of the Saharawi state.

This is our last movie about Lisbon. The starting point is this question: If one day the water swallows this city, what will be the traces of the struggles we shared in these streets? The strength of affections and bodies in motion, determined to disrupt normality, brings us back to the surface. The trace of this struggle will be our ability to imagine together another city, another world

A film on the social movements upholding the right to live in the city of Lisbon at a time when the struggle for urban space builds up as the result of the expansion of financial capitalism, which concentrates wealth in the hands of a few and increases social inequality. A film on those who challenge the conversion of the city into merchandise and disobey injustice by empowering those who seek a place to live.