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Eriberto Gualinga

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Eriberto Gualinga

Eriberto is the first Kichwa Amazonian filmmaker from the Indigenous community of Sarayaku to earn a degree in film from the University of the Arts in Ecuador. His documentaries are deeply committed to the struggle for the defense of his territory. He has produced several films about the resistance of Indigenous peoples against extractive industries. His film Sachata Kishipichik Mani / I Am the D…

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Helena of SarayakuHelena of Sarayaku · 2022
Helena of Sarayaku
★ 2.02022
MovieDocumentary
Helena is 17 years old and studies in Finland. Her father, a Swede, and her mother, indigenous Kichwa of Sarayaku, live at the heart of the Amazon in Ecuador.
The ReturnThe Return · 2021
The Return
★ 7.02021
MovieDocumentary
It’s spring in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Uyantza festival is underway with the community celebrating all that the forest has to offer. Meanwhile, news is breaking around the world that a novel virus is spreading and a state of emergency is declared across the country. As people test positive for COVID-19 in the community, some families decide to leave and head deeper into the jungle. Disconnected from school, friends, the internet, and work, one family learns to reconnect with life in the forest. The children begin to unlearn the national curriculum, and instead are taught Indigenous knowledge that mainstream schools normally pass over. As COVID-19 wreaks havoc around the planet, the family reconnect to their ancestral ways, but as news arrives that Ecuador’s lockdown will end soon, will the family choose to return?

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The ReturnThe Return · 2021
The Return
★ 7.02021
MovieDocumentary
It’s spring in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Uyantza festival is underway with the community celebrating all that the forest has to offer. Meanwhile, news is breaking around the world that a novel virus is spreading and a state of emergency is declared across the country. As people test positive for COVID-19 in the community, some families decide to leave and head deeper into the jungle. Disconnected from school, friends, the internet, and work, one family learns to reconnect with life in the forest. The children begin to unlearn the national curriculum, and instead are taught Indigenous knowledge that mainstream schools normally pass over. As COVID-19 wreaks havoc around the planet, the family reconnect to their ancestral ways, but as news arrives that Ecuador’s lockdown will end soon, will the family choose to return?

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