World

Ana Edwards

Chile / 2020 / 19’

NATIONAL PREMIERE

Worshiping and creating myths about stars, animals, and nature’s phenomena is fundamental to the American Indigenous Peoples’ worldview. A system of beliefs that barely survives under the colonizer’s cultural imposition. “Mundo” depicts the dusk of the Aymara culture in a small Chilean town called Chucuyo, where the Evangelical Pentecostal mission arrives. Now, characters such as Matilde, an 87-year-old Aymara lady, consider that their indigenous beliefs are mere fabrications, a product of the ignorance and sin of their ancestors. This film reveals  transformations -catalyzed by fear, guilt, and neglect- while bringing up discussions about respect and conservation of ancestral traditions against religious freedom and cultural openness.

By Andrés Pedraza Tabares

AWARDS/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Best Short Documentary Film at FESAALP, FESTIVAL DE CINE LATINOAMERICANO DE LA PLATA

Producer: Ana Edwards | Casting: Matilde Morales | 

CINEMATECA DE BOGOTÁ / THEATER 2

Friday, October 29th, 4:00 p.m.  

Available from October 26th to November 1st, on the Virtual Theater MIDBO for Colombia.