The Argentine film “Zoophobia”, directed by Pablo Chehebar and Nicolás Iacouzzi, which tells the story of the closure of the Buenos Aires zoo, won the Sol de Oro award for “Best Documentary” at the Suncine Festival in Barcelona, one of the most prestigious. of environmental cinema in the world. “It fills us with pride and satisfaction to have come this far with our film!” said the winners in a statement after the award ceremony at the international film meeting. The film, which will soon be available on streaming platforms, has the story of the closure of the Buenos Aires Zoo after the death of the polar bear Winner, which prompted a lawyer to get a Buenos Aires court to declare Sandra, the Zoo’s last orangutan, as a “Non-human Person” for the first time in history. “We realized that the Zoo interested us as a space, as a place in the city, something related to childhood and animals, interesting because of the strange buildings it houses; We began to put together a project in relation to that and things began to happen, especially the issue in relation to Sandra,” said Chehebar, in dialogue with the press. “We were interested in comparing the two worlds, that of conservationists, who support the existence of zoos, since according to the Germans, the function that a well-designed zoo fulfills can be irreplaceable in terms of conservation; and also the arguments of animal activists who ask for its closure, whatever the zoo. Both positions can be valid and the film does not seek to provide a solution to such a complex problem but rather to open the panorama of the complexity of the issue.”
Source: Ambito
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