“Fem cumó, un altre camí” in Mallorca

This February, the good people from Usnea RP will be in Mallorca, showing “Fem cumó, un altre camí” (“Doing cumó: another way”), the documentary made with support from the Emprius Prize 2024.

Three screenings have been organised:

• Thursday 19 in Sineu, at 7pm at the Municipal Library.
• Friday 20 in Palma, at 7pm at L’Elèctrica Ateneu Popular.
• Saturday 21 in Manacor, at 6pm at the Institució Pública Antoni M. Alcover.

Since the premiere in Tremp in November, there have been more than a dozen screenings of the film: in the Lluçanès, the Baix Camp, the Terra Alta, the Baixa Ribagorça, Huesca, Barcelona, the Anoia, the Bages, the Alt Urgell… If you want to organise a screening in your area, get in touch with Usnea or Emprius: usnea.rp(a)gmail.com / comunicacio(a)emprius.cat.

Recently the Directa published an article about the film: “Restituir l’ànima comunal a les valls del Pirineu”.

Synopsis:

In a corner of the Pre-Pyrenees, the village of Sapeira and the Terreta valley hold the traces of a communal past of great value. “Fem cumó, un altre camí” follows the participatory process driven by the collective Usnea RP, together with the people of the village, to recover this living memory: interviews, cumó work days and communal work sessions and workshops become spaces of dialogue where stories from grandparents meet new collective imaginaries. Another way also means doing it again: walking together once more, doing cumó as before but with fresh eyes. The film immerses us in the beauty and fragility of a rural world that was dismantled socially and culturally years ago, while opening up questions about the future of the commons and the potential of grassroots structures as an act of justice and social transformation. Communal lands have been the foundation of collective life for over a millennium. Today we are living through an unprecedented time, in which this way of being in the world has been relegated; perhaps it is a symptom of crisis, but also the starting point for a new beginning.