La pantalla andina | INDIFest

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Barcelona's IndiFest - Indigenous Film Festival celebrates its sixteenth edition, dedicated to the climate crisis. With the screening of La Pantalla Andina, a film that is an ode to cinema, and two short films created by the community, the IndiFest inaugurates the activities of this edition.

Silvina Velázquez, teacher and director of a school in the Andes of northwestern Argentina, accompanies a traveling film crew to bring films to the school in Yaquispampa, the most isolated in the province of Jujuy, for the first time, making a a twenty-hour journey on foot that reaches 4,200 meters of altitude.

They walk with one certainty: "Cinema is another journey that transforms us as a society."

The session includes the screening of:

Non niibo koiranti

PARTICIPATIVE VIDEO, 2021. Peru. YOU 9'. Digital archive.

Young people from the Shipibo people of the Peruvian Amazon talk about the changes in their forest and emphasize the need to preserve it to combat climate change and maintain biodiversity.

Ikú + chatsikayari

PARTICIPATIVE VIDEO, 2022. Mexico. YOU 9'. Digital archive.

A young Wixarika sees himself in the need to go look for corn to eat. He will learn great life lessons along the way.

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