Sheffield DocFest 2025

Shorts: Resistance

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Documenting resistance. Documentary as resistance. These films speak of the visceral power of documentary film to bear witness and to model new realities.

In the mist of the Patagonian Andes, an indigenous forest is recovering from a fire, with animals and humans emerging from a landscape scarred by colonisation.

From the Mountain We See the Mountain blends haunting imagery and whispered myth to explore a land marked by ecological trauma and the colonial experience. As animals and humans cautiously re-emerge after a forest fire, rumours swirl: was it an accident, an act of nature, or something more insidious? Through eerie nighttime scenes, surreal lighting and interviews lit by the flicker of imagined flames, the film evokes a sense of environmental dystopia and quiet resistance. Balancing elements of myth, sci-fi and thriller, the film conjures a land reckoning with monsters it did not create.


This film will screen as part of the programme Shorts: Resistance.
  • Year
    2025
  • Runtime
    32 minutes
  • Language
    Spanish, Mapuzugun
  • Country
    Belgium
  • Premiere
    World premiere
  • Rating
    Unclassified 18+
  • Genre
    Environment & Wildlife, History & Archive
  • Director
    Julian Garcia Long
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