Date: September 15th, 2023 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Where: The Centre for Advanced Wood Processing
Case Room – 2916 | Forest Sciences Centre | 2424 Main Mall
This event is free to attend but space is limited so please register ASAP.
Name: Kii nche ndutsa
Length: 13 minutes
Language: Mixteco
Director: Itandehui Jansen
Indigenous Director: Yes
Female Director: Yes
Country: México
Nation: Mixteco
Year: 2020
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis:
An Indigenous boy imagines a future while listening to the sounds of a shell, while a man tells him the past of him listening to the same shell. The man remembers the sound of birds and staring at fireflies in his childhood, but they are no longer found. The short invites audiences to consider the past, present and future of a landscape in constant change and biodiversity that is disappearing.
Name: Wüfko
Length: 3 minutes
Language: Spanish
Director: Paula Baeza Pailamila
Indigenous Director: Yes
Female Director: Yes
Country: Chile
Nation: Mapuche
Year: 2019
Genre: Visual Arts
Synopsis:
Drifting through the native forest we find the Wüfko, a natural well of crystal clear water, a place of abundant humidity and greenery. An ancient and thick triwe takes root on its shore. This is where Gabriela’s dream originates, which reveals her deep connection with the territory.
Name: Flores de la llanura
Length: 18 minutes
Language: Spanish
Director: Mariana Rivera García
Indigenous Director: No
Female Director: Yes
Country: México
Nation: Amuzgo, Ñomndaa
Year: 2021
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis:
After Silvia’s femicide, her cousin Yecenia, a Ñomndaa weaver from the Llanura de Flores, builds a poetic and ritual duel where the threads, dreams, and textile knowledge of women are collectively intertwined in an act of healing and resilience.