«A proposal that embraces the search for new cinematic languages to appropriate and redefine images, offering the viewer a fresh perspective on the ideologically charged representations of death, religion, and the end of the world. A film whose imagery is structured around rhythm and repetition, presenting a new way of seeing what we’ve encountered countless times before. If cinema is not meant to answer the questions of the contemporary world but rather, through imagination, to create alternatives that might allow us to change it—then this film is, in essence, cinema.»

«As its title suggests, Negu Hurbilak (Near Winter) seeks a way to recount all that was yet to come—seemingly cold, dry, and harsh. A look at the Other from the perspective of Us. A film about the ongoing consequences of a conflict whose representation in cinema has almost always been mediated. A film whose courage goes beyond its subject matter, proposing a movement that allows intangible sensations to seep through its images. Its value lies in those very images and in how they are articulated—almost weightlessly, suspended in time—as if its characters existed only within the space and time the film itself creates.»

«For its valuable collective gesture that reclaims the power of grassroots organization and cinema as a community tool. This documentary offers a way of expressing ourselves from within the territory, created alongside local residents. It not only recovers silenced environmental memories but also builds a bridge between past and present struggles for environmental justice and the right to decent housing. The piece embodies both a political and aesthetic commitment to forms of filmmaking that strengthen community bonds and reaffirm the right to tell one’s own story.»

The film has been selected by Zumzeig members through a voting system to be exhibited at Zumzeig Cinema (Barcelona) and NUMAX (Santiago de Compostela) after the Festival.