Ñuu

Ñu’u (Earth, Tnu’u savi) is an ethnographic work starring Petronila Pérez Velasco, a woman from a Mixteco village, who narrates a vision of what it means to love nature, life in the countryside, maize, quelites and her identity as an indigenous woman and elementary school teacher, whose aim is to teach her students their mother tongue and consume local plants. The documentary was made for the International Year of Plant Health and Sustainability to encourage measures aimed at promoting and carrying out activities to favour the conservation and maintenance of the world’s plant resources and also to continue encouraging the recovery of indigenous languages as part of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. The documentary was made in Mexico and Spain during the pandemic and integrates digital anthropology and new forms of long-distance communication between two women: Petronila Perez from Mexico and Aline Lara from Andalusia, Spain.