8 - 12 FEBRUARY 2021
The virtual festival is just one of the events taking place during Indigenous Peoples' week from 8 to 12 February 2021.
Join us for discussions at the Fifth Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD where the focus is on the value of indigenous food systems: resilience in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thanks to the Indigenous Peoples' organisations and filmmakers who have made these documentaries and films available for us to discover.
This feature-length film developed out of the short documentary People of the Sea and the Wind to deepen the stories from the Zapotec communities in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, following the arrival of the wind energy transnational corporations.
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On March 2016, the assassination of Berta Cáceres shook the world. The defense against the construction of a dam at the Gualcarque River is the preface to this story.
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A short film on how the Karen Indigenous Peoples in northern Thailand practice rotational farming
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A short film about Ogiek community continuous fight to recognition and access to land rights in Kenya.
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Film about Chocó, a 27-year-old black woman, displaced from her land by violence. She carries a family of two young children and Everlides, her husband a musician who can only play marimba, drink viche and play dominoes.
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This short documentary explores the relationship between Peru's Indigenous Peoples and water. It shows the Peruvian Indigenous communities' long struggle for autonomy.
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The documentary explores how Indigenous communities’ livelihood in Colombia is threatened as they are struggling to keep their ancestral territory.
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This documentary about the Guarani Kaiowá massacres follows a peaceful and obstinate insurgency of the dispossessed Guarani Kaiowá against the powerful apparatus of agribusiness.
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MONDAY 8 FEBRUARY
Mexico
Ingrid Eunice Fabián González
2016
64 min
Spanish with subtitles in French, English, Portuguese, German
This feature-length film developed out of the short documentary People of the Sea and the Wind to deepen the stories from the Zapotec communities in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, following the arrival of the wind energy transnational corporations.
Álvaro Obregón, a fishing community in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, has resisted the threat of the construction of a wind park for years. In La Venta, a farming town nearby, things are completely different: wind energy transnational corporations succeeded at invading their lands over a decade ago.
TUESDAY 9 FEBRUARY
Honduras
2016
Directed by Katia Lara
30 minutes
Spanish with subtitles in English, French and Portuguese
On March 2016, the assassination of Berta Cáceres shook the world. Gustavo Castro, Mexican environmental activist witnessed the crime and survived the horror of that night but was then trapped in Honduras. The defense against the construction of a dam at the Gualcarque River is the preface to this story. We follow Miriam Miranda, leader of the Garífuna people as well as a friend and comrade of Berta.
WEDNESDAY 10 FEBRUARY
Thailand
Directed by Jon Robin Bustamante
Producers: Dazzle Labapis, Songphonsak Ratanawilailak
12 minutes
English
Rotational farming, also called shifting cultivation or swidden agriculture, is one of the most misunderstood systems of land use. Many ASEAN countries have laws criminalizing or banning the practice, but for Indigenous Peoples, rotational farming is a sustainable practice closely interlinked into their lives and culture.
NTFP-EP and PASD Thailand present a short film on how the Karen Indigenous Peoples in northern Thailand practice rotational farming. It explores how rotational farming has helped them provide for their food security, while also contributing to the sustainable management of their forest ecosystems.
Kenya
Jason Taylor/ International Land Coalition
2018
7 minutes
English
Winner of the International Land Coalition (ILC) Award 2018. The movie talks about The Ogiek Indigenous People court battle against the Kenyan Government. The Mau Forest has always been a source of livelihoods for the Ogiek, however, conservation and environmental laws and policies have led to them being prohibited from living and hunting in the forest. The Ogiek have been evicted and marginalised and their forest devastated. The Ogiek are asking for the full implementation of the court’s ruling, including compensation and reparations. Now, it's up to the Government of Kenya to let about 35,000 Ogiek families live freely on their ancestral land.
THURSDAY 11 FEBRUARY
Colombia
Directed by Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza
2014
80 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles
Chocó is a 27-year-old black woman, displaced from her land by violence. She carries a family of two young children and Everlides, her husband a musician who can only play marimba, drink viche and play dominoes. Chocó is a strong, fighting woman. In the morning she works looking for gold in the San Juan River and in the evenings wash other families' clothes for feed and educate their children. It is the birthday of little Candelaria, and for the first time Chocó promises a cake, however, things get complicated when trying to deliver this promise, triggering unexpected consequences for Chocó and all her family.
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FRIDAY 12 FEBRUARY
Peru
GTANW, IWGIA, Ore-media and Canejo Productions
2017
14 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles
Time is Water explores the relations between Peru's Indigenous Peoples and water. Indigenous Peoples living in any part of the world have inseparable ties with water, land and forest. Peru is no exception. In this South American nation, Indigenous Peoples have been denied their rights in the Constitution. Yet, they have exercised their rights to self-determination to establish their autonomous government. 'Time Is Water' shows the Peruvian indigenous communities' long struggle for autonomy.
Colombia
2018
12 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles
The documentary explores how Indigenous communities’ livelihoods in Colombia are threatened as they struggle to keep their ancestral territory. The Arhuaco peoples have organised themselves and are making a last stand to prevent more mining concessions in their territory and create sustainable development. High up in the beautiful mountains of Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, in the north of Colombia, the remaining settlements from the Arhuaco peoples are located. Having already had to flee once in their history. When the Spanish conquerors arrived, they chose to live in this remote and difficult to access location in the hope of being able to live undisturbed and in accordance with their cultural beliefs. However, external forces are once again threatening to destroy their ways of living, as the mountains are rich in minerals and the ecosystem is fragile to climate change.
Brazil
Vincent Carelli with Ernesto de Carvalho and Tita
Video nas Aldeias
2016
162 minutes
Portuguese and Guarani with subtitles in English, Spanish and French
This documentary records the great reclaiming march for the sacred Guarani Kaiowá territories through Vincent Carelli’s filming, who recorded the birthplace of the movement in the 1980s. Twenty years later, touched by the successive massacres, Carelli searches for the origins of this genocide, a conflict of disproportionate forces: the peaceful and obstinate insurgency of the dispossessed Guarani Kaiowá, against the powerful apparatus of agribusiness.
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