“People who live outside” is a documentary with which the Libre e Iguales platform wants to show “shamelessly what nationalism does with the lives of people who resist obeying its mandates.” This is how the journalist and writer Arcadi Espada, one of the promoters of this initiative, summarizes the documentary, and it arose to raise awareness of the seriousness of the Catalan independence struggle.
The protagonists of the film are four Catalans who felt “perfectly Spanish” and were forced to leave Catalonia due to the harassment of nationalism that is now driving the 9-N consultation. The idea arose, Espada explains, when Libres e Iguales wanted to present themselves in society in Barcelona and contacted the philosopher Félix de Azua, the journalist Federico Jiménez Losantos, the playwright Albert Boadella and the writer Xavier Pericay. The four rejected the invitation to star in a public event in Barcelona because, as Boadella says in the documentary, after being expelled from Catalonia they even cut off “the vision of the landscape.”
Arcadi Espada set out to express through images their experiences and impressions, both from a political and personal point of view, when they were excluded from the society in which they lived and wanted to live. The result is, according to the journalist, an “unprecedented experience” that has “hard moments” to denounce the nationalist harassment that has forced those who do not agree with that ideology to change their lives.
‘People who live outside’, which meets the objective of the platform to confront nationalism from a political and intellectual point of view, premieres today in Madrid and on the 6th, three days before the 9N consultation, it will be able to be seen in a cinema in Barcelona. at 10 pm. Tickets can be purchased on the Libres e Iguales website.
‘People who live outside’, a documentary about independence
The Libre e Iguales platform and the journalist Arcadi Espada promote the project
It features Félix de Azua, Federico Jimenez Losantos, Albert Boadella and Javier Pericay