2025 | Colombia | Fiction,Short

Crystals of Incandescent Blood

  • Spanish 20 mins
  • Director | Juanita Onzaga
  • Writer | Juanita Onzaga
  • Producer | Juanita Onzaga

STATUS: Development

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The moorland is burning, it’s next to a diverse community of women, whose freshwater turns scarce. The group of women in charge of the kitchen, including Laura, Fercha and Mariana, who use the last drops of fresh water. The 3 girls decide together to head to the river, other women follow them, the river’s waters are suddenly very polluted. Surprised, they inquire into, discovering a clandestine mine of coltan in their mountain. The miners approach them, they are scary. The women aren’t afraid, they confront them becoming roaring panthers and jaguars. 

Their roars echo in the mountain.

The community of women do a ritual to communicate with the spirit of the water, the land then communicates with them. They all lay down on the earth to listen to it, each hears a different thing, but the message is clear, they must get some coltan mineral, so they can talk to its spirit. 

The women approach the mine together, with decorated machetes and shiny balaclavas. Confronted by a group of miners, they all telepathically make them faint, who all fall to the ground, suddenly deeply sleeping. The women finally get the stones. They go to the river and do a ritual, where Laura communicates with the spirit of the coltan, whispering what it says to Fercha, Mariana and the other women. They try to convince him to take some vacation and stop working for a while, so that the mountain can recover and the waters become free again. The spirit of the coltan doubts it, but the women have good reasons, so the coltan accepts to shut off and annihilate technology. 

Suddenly, the mountain waters, animals and plants, make an enormous buzz of sounds and waves of water, breathing free again. 

Coltan community telepathy