Fiesta. To Fight or Not to Fight (2009)

A documentary offering an insider's view into one of the oldest, most enigmatic, and controversial Spanish cultural traditions: bullfighting. In 2004 the City Council of Barcelona issued a ban on bullfighting. The film captures the existential crisis of the toreador's profession in its twilight. It presents both sides of the bullfighting debate, showing the confrontation between age-old traditions and the forces of modernity. Fiesta, never offering easy moral answers, leaves us to ponder. Who determines culture, and how do we know when the time for change has come?