Composting Cinema: essays on the soil

Daniela Rodrigues

Documentary / 16mm, HD, Animation / 29' / 2026

If the word for world is Earth, we call our world Soil. In the anthropogenic biome of southern Portugal, inhabited by humans since the Neolithic, the soil unfolds as a compost of layered time, images, entities, gestures of care, magic, and acts of struggle. A tribute to bodies that have been planting, pruning, digging, okupying, healing, singing, working, and dying over these eroded lands. A spell-film, eco-developed with acorns from the cork oaks of the montado.


With Miguel Choni, Miguel dos Santos, Raquel Shakti, Trabalhadoras da Carvoaria de Marta Ribeiro Directing Daniela Rodrigues Cinematography Daniela Rodrigues Sound Chris Muller, Aloys Kerrec Sound Mix Aloys Kerrec Editing Luisa Homem Music Puçanga, Coro Mor Colorist Inês Sambas

Festivals

Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic'26