Utopias

In Israel, in the village of Neve Shalom, for the last 52 years, Christians, Jews and Muslims have been working tirelessly to live in peace despite the blasts and war in the community.

Sarayaku is a territory located in the north of the Amazon, south of the Equator. Members of the seven communities that constitute it defend their Kichwa culture and the forest against attempts at oil extraction.

Sel and Mazette were part of a group that occupied the Arlon forest in Belgium to protect it against a real estate project. However, in 2021, when the ZAD was dismantled by the Belgian police, these two hit the road to strengthen social ties.

A few kilometres from the war zones is the village of Nijné Sélitché, which is a network of farms and those fleeing the war. It is here in Ukrainian Transcarpathia that Longo Maï, the long-lived utopia, confronts chaos.

For 38 years, the Landless Movement in Brazil has created spaces of equality, food sovereignty, education and sharing for those who had nothing left.

In the heart of the Spanish Basque Country, 34-year-old Ane decided to dig the earth to create her utopia. In eight years, she transformed a small vegetable garden into an agricultural farm using permaculture.