Shirampari: Legacies of the River

In the Peruvian Andes, a young woman tries to balance her passion for Quechua storytelling at a local radio station with the dedication she feels for her family.

Set on an island 600 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, this intimate vérité portrait follows two young Inuit coming of age. Created in close collaboration with a local children’s home and filmed in the Greenlandic language, the story traces identity, tradition, loss, and resilience. Living alongside its protagonists, the film observes a fragile passage between deep cultural roots and an uncertain, rapidly changing world.

The old Shaman makes his last trip to the Amazon jungle in search of a special beeswax for arrows that he learned to make when he had not yet been contacted by Western culture