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Invisible City (I) (2008)
52 min | Documentary

Invisible City (I) (2008)

52 min | Documentary

Stones flying, screams, rubber balls, riot police, police on one side, Maghrebis and Spaniards on the other. They throw at Abdul's house, a Moroccan worker who lives in the Cañada Real Galiana, a traditional cattle pass. The questioning of...See moreStones flying, screams, rubber balls, riot police, police on one side, Maghrebis and Spaniards on the other. They throw at Abdul's house, a Moroccan worker who lives in the Cañada Real Galiana, a traditional cattle pass. The questioning of 40 years of history begins. Four decades of occupation of public land, 40,000 residents of up to four different communities - Spanish, Muslim, Spanish and Romanian gypsies -, luxury villas and shacks, camels, drug addicts and volunteers, businessmen and pariahs - more than 10,000 children. Not a hospital, not a school, not a sheep ...; Forty years after the arrival of the first settlers to the Cañada Real Galiana, this is the panorama of this linear city of sixteen kilometers in length in the Community of Madrid: the biggest illegal settlement of Europe. The peaceful lawless city of yesteryear has become in within a few years "the village of injustice", where marginalization coexists daily, as its inhabitants are the forgotten ones in a society that intends to recycle them next to an incinerator; and the delinquency and drug addiction, a direct consequence of the aforementioned marginalization. Through the inhabitants of that territory without law, their voices, their vital testimonies, the documentary "The Invisible City: Voices in the Cañada Real Galiana" tries to approach the different realities that coexist daily in this illegal settlement. See less