Young people from Son Roca premiere at CineCiutat the documentary they have made about their neighborhood
A score of young people from Son Roca have learned in one year to interview, build a narrative and photograph
PalmaThe documentary Última Parada: Son Roca premiered this evening at CineCiutat. The piece, 43 minutes long, is the result of a year of work by the young people from the Son Roca neighborhood who are members of the ISTMO audiovisual workshop, an initiative of the Othman Ktiri Foundation developed with the collaboration of the Naüm Socio-educational Project Foundation and Quindrop Producciones Audiovisuales. Before arriving at the cinema, the documentary was screened in the neighborhood itself, outdoors, in a showing for the neighbors and families who appear in it.
ISTMO is a social and cultural program of the Othman Ktiri Foundation that starts from a conviction: artistic creation is a tool for inclusion and emancipation. It is not attached to any single discipline and is installed in a territory for a full academic year, working in a network with the entities already operating there. The first edition, Archivo humano de un barrio, proposed building a neighborhood archive with its residents: participatory photography, oral storytelling, and audiovisual training. To develop it, the foundation launched an open process in 2025 aimed at professional teams, from which, among five candidates, Quindrop Producciones Audiovisuales was selected. The chosen neighborhood was Son Roca, one of the urban environments with the highest indicators of vulnerability in the Balearic Islands. The foundation was looking for a territory with a vibrant community fabric and an organization capable of sustaining support throughout the process: Fundació Naüm Projecte Socioeducatiu has been working there since the year 2000."We have been supporting organizations that do excellent work for years. With ISTMO, we wanted to take a step further and commit ourselves to a complete process, in a specific neighborhood and with names and surnames. Culture transforms when it stays long enough," declared Othman Ktiri, president of the foundation.A full course in the Naüm classrooms
The project has been developed over a full academic year in the Naüm classrooms and on the streets of Son Roca in three stages: first, training in audiovisual techniques and oral storytelling, with which the documentary was produced; then, the participatory photography workshop, which those coming from the audiovisual course could also join; and, finally, the curation, to prepare the exhibition.About twenty young people linked to Naüm have participated in the process: 16 sign the photographs of the exhibition and 5 have worked on the script and production of the documentary. Added to this are the families who participated in the workshops and the people who provide their testimony in the documentary, including neighbors from the neighborhood, family members of the participants themselves, and EMT drivers.
