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Geolocations and new “ruralities”

Geolocations and new “ruralities” Ángela Valverde


The rural life has gone through many modifications in the last two centuries, something that has also happened in the urban domain. The migration movements have unpopulated big agrarian areas, where the youngest inhabitants move out to the cities for a better future, many times outside of their countries. However, in these last years a new desire is arising consisting on recovering the wellbeing elements that a rural environment offers not only to the people, but also to its communities. The existence of life outside the busy city life has been enforced as an alternative model of sustainability and cohabitation, which proposes a new way to repopulate the rural spaces by a population sector that is trying to define and form this new rural life, further away from an idyllic return. 

With the objective of presenting these new movements, the Instituto Cervantes presents a cinematographic program online consisting of four documentaries that will bring us closer to rural life-stories in four different regions of Spain. These four stories open a window to the lights and shadows of this way of living and gather a contemporary view of traditions, but also about the difficulties of maintaining these new approaches.

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