Earth's Children
Jorge Tapullima is a kechwa-lamista community child. He lives in Chiriqyako, in the Peruvian Amazon. Jorge shows us his everyday in Chiriqyako.
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Mothers of the Land
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Mothers of the Land accompanies five women from the Andean highlands in their daily struggle to maintain a traditional and organic way of working the land. In the Andean worldview, women and the earth are strongly interrelated. Both, a women’s body and the earth’s soil are capable of giving and nurturing life. In the context of the ever-growing industrialization of agriculture, the use of chemical pesticides and genetically modified seeds is a woman, who, connected to the earth through bonds of sisterhood, takes on the role of protectors.
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Director
Alvaro Sarmiento, Diego Sarmiento
Production
Alvaro Sarmiento for HDPERU
Co-production
Diego Sarmiento for Desfase Films
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Alvaro Sarmiento for HDPERU
Festival Handling
Diego Sarmiento for Desfase Films
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52 and 74
Spoken languages
Spanish
Quechua
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