Land Without Bread (Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan)
A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
Deborah Martin is Professor of Latin American Film and Culture at University College London. She is a Latin American film studies scholar and the author of The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (Palgrave, 2019), Latin American Women Filmmakers Production, Politics, Poetics (I.B.Tauris, 2017) and The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel (Manchester University Press, 2016).
