2022 | Colombia, Portugal | Documentary

Yarokamena

  • Spanish English 21 mins
  • Director | Andrés Jurado
  • Writer | Andrés Jurado
  • Producer | Maria Alejandra Rojas Arias, Ansgar Schaefer

STATUS: Released

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This is the story of Yarokamena, a Uitoto indigenous person who organized armed resistance to rubber exploitation at the beginning of the 20th century in Casa Arana, Colombia. He invokes the spiritual and cosmic forces of war, releasing its destructive power from its container that ends up creating a spiral of betrayal and death.

Resistance Spirituality Colonialism Memory Extraction
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