La Terre tremble

The daughter of Chileans who immigrated to Switzerland, Vania Aillon sets out resolutely to a land in full effervescence–Venezuela. The agrarian reform underway implies land distributions that, although supported administratively by the army, are far from evident for the owners of large haciendas. With honesty and modesty, the filmmaker mixes her images of land occupation and her exchange with Carmen, who hopes that the agratienda socialista will improve her poverty-ridden daily life. How do you accept, when you’ve grown up in Europe, that ‘I’ is a bad thing”? La Terre tremble seeks to understand, with no sarcasm, the collectivist ideology and its reality on the ground.

Charlotte Garson