El mar que nos fue confiado - Jose Carlos Rando Lara

Author’s country of origin: Málaga.
Filming locations: Granada and Málaga.
Running time: 5 minutes.
Language: Spanish.
Award: Special mention for BIODIVERSITY.

After years spent exploring the waters of the Mediterranean, every dive remains an opportunity to discover an extraordinary universe, brimming with life, colour and unexpected encounters. Through images captured beneath the surface, El mar que nos fue confiado invites us to contemplate the beauty of an ecosystem as fascinating as it is fragile, and to discover what remains hidden from much of society.

But this gaze of admiration is also a call to responsibility. Pollution, waste and the impact of our actions threaten a natural heritage that we still have time to protect. Because understanding the sea is the first step towards loving and defending it. A visual and emotional journey that reminds us that the Mediterranean does not belong to us: we have received it from those who came before us, and we have a responsibility to keep it alive and full of beauty for future generations.