Documentary made with support from the 2024 Emprius Prize (Premi Emprius). Winning proposal by Usnea RP: “Fem cumó. Passat, present i futur del comunal a Sapeira i a la vall de la Terreta” (“Doing cumó: past, present and future of the commons in Sapeira and the Terreta valley”).
Title: Fem cumó, un altre camí
Synopsis:
In a corner of the Pre-Pyrenees, the village of Sapeira and the Terreta valley hold the traces of a deeply valuable communal past. “Fem cumó, un altre camí” (“Doing cumó: another way”) follows the participatory process led by the Usnea RP collective, together with the people of the village, to recover this living memory: interviews, cumós — days of communal work — and workshops become spaces for dialogue where grandparents’ stories meet new collective imaginaries. Another path also means another turn: walking together again, doing cumó as before but with fresh eyes. The film draws us into the beauty and fragility of a rural world that was socially and culturally dismantled years ago, while opening questions about the future of the commons and the potential of grassroots structures as an act of justice and social transformation.
The commons have been a foundation of collective life for more than a millennium. Today we live in an unusual time, when this way of being in the world has been sidelined; perhaps it is a symptom of crisis, but also the starting point of a new beginning.
Directed by: David Andreu i Solà
Production: Usnea RP and AÜC Transformació Audiovisual
Collaboration: Associació de Veïns i Veïnes de Sapeira
Graphic design: Ana Pardo López and Marc Méndez Peña
Year: 2025
Running time: 22 minutes
Licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0
Documentary subtitles available: Catalan / Spanish
We want to encourage screenings in different territories, so they can become community spaces to meet, think and share around this whole perspective. Neighbourhood associations, casals or ateneus (community social centres), cultural organisations, co-operatives rooted in the territory, community projects…
🍿 Want to organise a screening of the documentary in your village or neighbourhood?
Get in touch with Usnea: usnea.rp(a)gmail.com
(the list of upcoming screenings will be updated)
Pallars Jussà | SAPEIRA (El Cau – Casa Nova) – 01/11/25
Pallars Jussà | TREMP (Ateneu del Pallars) – 08/11/25
Lluçanès | PRATS DE LLUÇANÈS (La Rosada) – 13/11/25
Baix Camp | LA SELVA DEL CAMP (“Els comuns rurals” gathering) – 27/11/25
Terra Alta | BOT (FESSrural 2025) – 30/11/25
Baixa Ribagorça | TOLVA (Saló social) – 07/12/25
Huesca | SIESO DE JACA – 09/12/25
Barcelonès | BCN – VILA DE GRÀCIA (Ateneu La Torna) – 12/12/25
Anoia | VALLBONA D’ANOIA (Calafou) – 12/12/25
Bages | MANRESA (Ateneu Popular La Sèquia) – 16/12/25
Alt Urgell | LA SEU D’URGELL (Ateneu Alt Urgell) – 22/01/26
Barcelonès | BCN – HORTA-GUINARDÓ (Casal de Barri La Barraca del Carmel) – 30/01/26
Pallars Sobirà | GERRI DE LA SAL (Tremolina) – 07/02/26
Mallorca | SINEU (Biblioteca Municipal) – 19/02/26
Mallorca | PALMA (L’Elèctrica Ateneu Popular) – 20/02/26
Mallorca | MANACOR (Institució Pública Antoni M. Alcover) – 21/02/26
Alt Urgell | SORRIBES DE LA VANSA (Espai la Vansa) – 01/04/26
Huesca | ESTOPANYÀ (Hostal La Rurala) – 05/04/26
Mallorca | POLLENÇA (Can Bum) – 10/04/26
Vallès Oriental | SANT ANTONI DE VILAMAJOR (La Sala) – 22/04/26
Ripollès | RIPOLL (Casal Cívic i Comunitari La Devesa del Pla) – 24/04/26
Huesca | ARENY DE NOGUERA (Casa Espardenyer) – 02/05/26
Barcelonès | BCN – SANTS (La Lleialtat Santsenca) – 14/05/26
Pallars Sobirà | ARRÓS DE CARDÓS (13th fair of the Alt Pirineu Natural Park and the Aranese sheep) – 24/05/2026
Castile | MADRID (Ateneo La Maliciosa) – 29/05/26
Valencian Country | MORELLA (Festival “Docs al Portal”) – 19/07/26
Baix Ebre | L’AMETLLA DE MAR (Associació l’Econau) – 23/07/26
Pallars Sobirà | GAVÀS (Festa Major) – 07/08/26
Alt Urgell | CASTELLBÒ (Festa Major) – 11/08/26
Pallars Sobirà | ESTAC (Festa Major) – 16/08/26
Anoia | SANTA MARGARIDA DE MONTBUI (16th Ethnographic Film Festival of Catalonia) -18/09/26
Vallès Oriental | CÀNOVES I SAMALÚS (Can Parera) – 20/09/26
Montsià | POBLE NOU DEL DELTA (Escola del Poble Nou) – 26/09/26
Barcelonès | BCN – GUINARDÓ (16th Ethnographic Film Festival of Catalonia) – 03/10/26
Pallars Sobirà | VALL DE CARDÓS (Cardós Film Festival) – 09/10/26
La Selva | LA CELLERA DE TER (16th Ethnographic Film Festival of Catalonia) – 16/10/26
[Master’s thesis]
“Memòria oral, història i patrimoni del comunalisme al Prepirineu. El cas de Sapeira” (“Oral memory, history and heritage of communalism in the Pre-Pyrenees: the case of Sapeira”), a master’s thesis by Jan Gálvez Rastrojo, published in 2025.
