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In the remote Andean highlands of Peru, Victoriano Arisapana cares for the woven footbridge that has stretched over the gorge for hundreds of years. The secrets of this bridge, the only one left from the ancient Incan empire, have been passed down by the men of Victoriano's family for 300 years. He is the Bridge Master, the one who has inherited the sacred task of weaving the bridge and of making the sacrificial offerings to the mountain spirits each...
2) Roma
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"With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuarón recreated the early-1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals"--Container....
3) Cholitas
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Five Bolivian indigenous women are involved in a unique expedition. As a symbol of liberation and empowerment, they propose to climb the highest mountain in America. The expedition could change their lives, the mountain could make them live, for the first time, true freedom.
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The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of a mysterious button that was discovered in its seabed. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline, the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes,...
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The story of Eufrosina Cruz, an indigenous woman from the Zapotec community of Santa María Quiegolani in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Las Sufragistas details her political struggle, as well as Mexican women’s long fight for political power, beginning with the Revolutionary period. The film also considers challenges that women in power face. "The film does not fall into a devils-and-angels complex, instead presenting both the successes and...
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Camilo is a young black man adopted by an indigenous couple in rural Colombia. He is the only Black person in his community and has always felt different. For years, he has been wondering about his biological parents. The indigenous Quillasinga-governor gives him Ayahuasca, a sacred remedy for spiritual guidance. During this transcendent experience, Camilo has visions of his biological mother. Supported by his adoptive father, Camilo embarks on a...
8) Ska'yaa
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Sergio arrived to the Oaxaca highlands and created a project for indigenous kids to discover their own capacity to dream through basketball. Through studying, effort, and will power they struggle to break the cycle of poverty around them and defeat their most powerful rival: hunger.
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In 1910, the British Consul General in Rio de Janeiro, Roger Casement, undertook an investigation into allegations of crimes against Indigenous communities committed by the British-registered Peruvian Amazon Company. Narrated from his journals, Secrets from Putumayo recounts the horrific treatment he uncovered there: an industrial-extractive system based on killings and slave labour in the midst of the Amazon jungle, "a real green hell."
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Through parallel story threads set 40 years apart, this absorbing odyssey follows two Western scientists who travel deep into the Amazon jungle looking for a rare plant that possesses healing powers, with enigmatic shaman Karamakate as their guide. Nominated to for Best Foreign Language Feature at the 2016 **Academy Awards**, Best International Film at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**, and winner of the **Sundance Film Festival**'s Alfred P....
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La gran mayoría de los niños indígenas somos educados en las tareas colectivas desde que somos pequeños. Nos toca cuidar la milpa, nos toca alejar a las aves para que no se coman el jilote delicado: la promesa del maíz. Este es el tema central de Tlajpiajketl ... un niño que va todas las mañanas, todas las tardes a espantar papanes -pájaros que se comen el elote tierno-, pero él, sólo piensa en escribir la Canción del Maíz. Sus líneas...
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"An indigenous language is in peril as its last two speakers, Evaristo and Isauro, had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over fifty years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge to bring the old friends back together and convince them to once again talk to each other, all so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it. However, hidden in the past, in the heart of the jungle, lies a secret...
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Los pueblos indígenas son a menudo considerados como los guardianes primarios de los recursos biológicos del planeta. Sus formas de vida han contribuido a la protección del medio natural del cual dependen. Aprende todo sobre las costumbres, idiomas y tradiciones de los pueblos originarios.
Indigenous Peoples are often thought of as the primary stewards of the planet's biological resources. Their ways of life have contributed to the protection...
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Una exploración lírica bellamente ilustrada de los valores, las conexiones y la sabiduría de los pueblos indígenas en relación con el agua y la Madre Tierra. Este libro se inspiró en los muchos movimientos liderados por indígenas en América del Norte para proteger el agua como una fuente sagrada de y para la vida.
A beautifully-illustrated, lyrical exploration of the values, connections, and wisdom of Indigenous people as it relates to water...
15) The pearl button
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"Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of a mysterious button that was discovered in its seabed. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline, the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian indigenous people, of the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows...
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"Durante generaciones, las mujeres de color han tenido que luchar contra las poderosas fuerzas del sexismo, el racismo y el clasismo; una lucha bastante solitaria. Cuando Prisca Dorca Mojicas fundó Latina Rebels, creó también una comunidad que las ayuda a pelear juntas. Lo hizo de nuevo con este libro. Para chicas fuertes, de corazón tierno y piel canela ofrece sabiduría y caminos de liberación, maneras poderosas de enfrentar diversos retos...
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"Este libro cuenta una historia de terquedad y rebeldía. La de una niña que a los 12 años decidió escribir su destino y, de paso, ayudar a miles y miles de mexicanas a cambiar su suerte. Soy Eufrosina Cruz y nací en la montaña zapoteca. A los 27 años gané la presidencia de mi pueblo, pero no me dejaron gobernar porque era mujer. En ese momento supe que, para cambiar mi vida y la de las mujeres indígenas, debía transformar la ley más importante...
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