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Salvar la utopía
Joaquín T. Smenjaud
Spain. 2025. 35 min

Leading voices from science and ecology talk to us about how climate change and overexploitation of water surround this unique natural space and those who inhabit it.
Doñana National Park is perhaps Spain’s most iconic environmental jewel. A mosaic of ecosystems that hosts a unique biodiversity in Europe and that, however, in 2023 was excluded from the green list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. That is why Joaquín T. Smenjaud, who was born and lives in Seville and has been a lover of this place since he was a child, wanted to share with the spectators his passion and also his concern for a space he has visited for decades.

JOAQUÍN T. SMENJAUD

Joaquín T. Smenjaud (Seville, 1975) has studied photography, filmmaking and audiovisual production. After 25 years as a video editor on television, he presents his first documentary film.
And for it he has chosen a current topic that ties deeply with her Andalusian roots and evokes his childhood memories. On this trip, he has the collaboration of actress Ana Cuesta and flamenco guitarist Guille Hiniesta, who surprises us with a very personal adaptation of Mozart’s Requiem.
“Paradise was there, within our reach, in the inherited world that we must preserve.”