María Laura Vásquez

On a remote beach in the Caribbean, a fisherman, trapped in the monotony of his daily life, wakes up to the call of Yemayá, the goddess of the sea.

The history of South America teaches us that the Venezuelan people and those of the rest of the continent have remained in the fight against the different attempts at capitalist domination, initially by the European invader and later by the express attempts by the American empire. In this context, When the Compass Marked the South shows, through the analysis of different elements, the emergence and consolidation of Venezuelan popular movements, from the conquest to the Bolivarian revolution, in pursuit of achieving a free and sovereign country.

Alina Sánchez, Lêgerîn, internationalist doctor, anthropologist, active participant in the Kurdistan Women's Liberation Movement, researcher specialized in the relationship between medicine and ancestral knowledge, coordinator of health care systems in the Middle East wars, friend , companion. With respect as the guiding thread of the documentary, María Laura Vásquez reconstructs each of these multiple lives of the doctor from Córdoba who died at the beginning of 2018 in Syria; but she also appropriates her story to vindicate the women who, as the filmmaker points out, “have been called to action in solidarity with their people and with other peoples in the world.”

In 1985, 120 young Argentinians traveled to the Nicaraguan jungle to pick coffee in support of the Sandinista Revolution. Thirty years later, four of them decided to retrace their steps, searching for the traces left by their time in this country.

A group of women from different Indigenous nations in Argentina march to Buenos Aires to demand a meeting with the minister to claim justice in their territories.