The hybrid format will combine face-to-face projections at the Cine Teatro Auditorium, the Teatro del Muelle and projections at the Playón Recreativo.
Some of the material can be seen from all over the world.
We present the opening film
Inauguration PEFF 2022, “The Witness is a Whale”
With the presence of its directors Nick Dean and Chery Dean.
Synopsis
A detective story that spans 60 years and half the world, The Witness Is a Whale documents the discovery of a massive illegal and secret slaughter of more than 200,000 whales by the Soviet Union and Japan in the 1960s, an act described by scientists as “one of the greatest environmental crimes of the 20th century”.
The Witness Is a Whale tells this story for the first time. What begins as an exposure of illegal Soviet whaling leads to a bigger, darker story, as former Soviet whalers accuse Japan of secretly killing whales, an act Japan has never confessed to, even now that they reinstate the commercial whaling.
This is accompanied by descriptions of the successful recovery of many whale populations and our growing scientific understanding of their importance in ocean ecosystems.
Origin: USA / Year: 2022 / Duration: 52 min.
Free screening in Puerto Madryn – National premiere
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Opening Schedule
Thursday September 1
7:30 p.m. Opening of the photographic exhibition AFONA
8:00 p.m. Projection
Puerto Madryn Cinema
Cinema Theater Auditorium of the Italian Society
July 28 129
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION AFONA
In addition, the AFONA Photographic Exhibition (Association of Nature Photographers) will be inaugurated, in which images of the “Nature and Conservation” photography contest will be exhibited in the “PHOTOGRAPHY and CONSERVATION” and “ENVIRONMENTAL PORTFOLIO” categories.
They will be exhibited at the Cine Teatro Auditorium until September 5, and festival participants will be able to vote for the best photograph which will receive the Audience Award, and will be awarded during the closing of the festival.
Find out more information! 7th edition of the Patagonia International Environmental Film Festival