International Short Film Competition
Amid shuttered pits and precarious shafts, a community restages their daily labour, transforming risk into testimony and a set into an archive of work, memory and dignity.
Amid shuttered pits and precarious shafts, a community restages their daily labour, transforming risk into testimony and a set into an archive of work, memory and dignity.
Shot in collaboration with Jerada’s inhabitants, this carefully constructed set invites miners to re-enact their routines, from the fragile descent to the measured sharing of tools and time. What emerges is an archive of Jerada, stories etched in coal dust and the echo of industrial architecture, where labour continues despite official closure in 2001. By letting people play themselves, the film restores context and care, mapping the choreography of survival and the quiet solidarities that hold a community together.
