Geolocations and New Ruralities

Rural life has undergone endless changes in the last two centuries, as has also happened in the urban sphere. The migratory movements have been depopulating huge agricultural areas, where the youngest inhabitants moved to cities in which to forge their future, many times outside their own countries. However, in recent times a new vocation has been glimpsed to recover the elements of well-being that the rural environment offers to the people and the communities that form it. Existing outside the hectic urban life has established itself as an alternative model of sustainability and coexistence that proposes another way of repopulating rural spaces, but beyond the idyllic readings of this return, a sector of the population is trying to define and find this new rural life. In order to illustrate these new movements, the Instituto Cervantes presents an online film programme with four documentaries that bring us closer to stories of life in the countryside in four very different parts of the Spanish geography. Its four stories open a window to the lights and shadows of this way of life and take a contemporary look at traditions, but also at the problems involved in maintaining these new bets on the future.