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Saarvocado

Victor Orozco Ramirez

8' /

Germany,

Mexico

/ 2025

The director walks through the woods of Saarland, the region where he lives and where the heavily fortified Siegfried Line was built during World War I, and used again during the Second. On this walk through a place of exotic beauty, he encounters a bunker. Its ruins emerge in the darkness, illuminated by eerie lighting effects that blur the line between reality and illusion, as does war. The director, originally from Mexico, remarks that his homeland never experienced war. But here, in his adopted country, the scars of conflict are etched into the land and into memory. By altering the footage with special effects and animations, the film suggests a tension between fiction and brutal reality. In the end, it imagines a post-war landscape where the trees will continue to grow—at least until the next war.