The Costa del Sol Press Club screened, on Wednesday the 16th, a short film about rural Andalusia in the 80’s, which was aired for the first time in Malaga. Two Australian directors, James Wilson and John Tristram, produced the documentary ‘El Pueblo’ (1981) showing rural life in Andalusian villages, from the visitor’s point of view.

The Department for Foreigners (FRD) collaborated with the promotion of this project, offering the assembly hall of the branch offices in La Cala for the screening of the film.

Councillor for Foreigners, Arancha López (Cs), said: “we can enjoy the film with no language barriers. It can be understood by all and not only takes us back 40 years, to see and learn more about how we lived at that time, but also how the foreigners, who were beginning to visit us, saw us”.

 

‘El pueblo y yo’

Researcher and professor at the Cadiz University, Antonio Javier González, published a book entitled ‘El pueblo y yo. It is a personal and visual essay on rural Spain in 1981 as seen ‘from the antipode’, in which he offers a novel essay of this documentary, as he obtained the images and visited the village itself and some of its protagonists. According to the author of the book, who was present at the screening, “the story is so great that it deserved a novel essay that would complete all the elements of the adventure of the Australian characters, the adventure of the evolution of democracy in the small villages of Spain and the south of Andalusia. I was able to have access to the images that were stored in American and Australian universities and after a long process, I was able to return to the village where it was filmed and even interview some of the protagonists of the documentary”, he explained.

Thanks to this screening, foreign residents, visitors and neighbours learned about the vision that foreigners had of our villages. In addition, “the Costa del Sol Press Club, with some 50 members from 12 different countries, celebrates 20 years in the province of Málaga”, as recalled by the club’s president, Jesper Sander Pedersen, who assured that the film would interest the foreign media.

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