For Earth Month (April), the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is offering a film series loosely based on farming and food production. All films are free and open to the public.

For more information, Prof. Colleen Culleton at culleton@buffalo.edu

The first film will be Alcarrás (Dir. Carla Simón, 2022). Catalan with English subtitles.

Writer/director Carla Simón’s eagerly anticipated follow up to her popular debut breakthrough ‘Summer 1993’ is a personal and beautifully observed new ensemble drama about a family of Catalonian farmers who, after generations harvesting the same land, face eviction and an uncertain future.

For as long as they can remember, the Solé family have spent every summer picking the peaches from their orchard in Alcarràs, a small village in Spain. But this year’s crop will be their last. The owner of the land is deceased, and his grandson and heir wants them to abandon the farming business so he can uproot the trees and install solar panels.

So as the children and the adults get together for the harvest, the family finds themselves at odds as to how they should go on, and risk losing more than their home…

(film synopsis from Palace Films)

This film series is sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Humanities Institute, Department of Media Study.