

In the Shadow of Cumare
Conversation between Daniel, the author, and Aniceto and Aurelia, his indigenous grandparents, who died while guiding their family in the midst of a struggle to find a cure for COVID-19.
|
2021
Synopsis
Since our origins, humans have found knowledge, medicine and life in nature. This is something Amerindian peoples continue to feel in their stories and in the plants they use every day to remember them. In the Shadow of Cumare is a farewell conversation between Daniel, the author, and Aniceto and Aurelia, his indigenous grandparents, who died while guiding their family in the midst of a struggle to find a cure for COVID-19. It is an auto-ethnographic journey crossed through by the death of a loved one, a journey of reflection and audiovisual exploration into the daily life of a family in the middle of the Colombian Amazon jungle; it is the director’s search to receive and transmit, through the lens of a camera, the last words he heard from the elders who woke his grandchildren up from death; it is an audiovisual dance that finds joy in the midst of a tragedy.
Artistic and technic data
Year:
2021
Direction:
Production:
Indigenous peoples:
Geographic area:
Language:
Féenemina'a (muinane)
Subtitles:
Spanish
Subject:
Genre(s):
Related films


Yalo Poñinkau (Black Butterfly)

Yaavi

Xavante: Memory, Culture and Resistance

Williche Stories

What will I teach you?

Wensa Yaytxa Wenjausu

Weaving Stories

Wamin (The Apple)

Until the End of the World

Ukamau and Ké

Tupiq A.C.T du Nord

Tuku

Tsunki Aumatsamu

The Yaqui Agreement

The weight

The Song of the Maguaré. Word of Advice from Dújdulli

The River of Blood and the Two Banks

The Heart of Men
