5th Finca / Food Sovereignty / Latinamerican Documentaries Competition

Sembradoras de vida

Mothers of the Land
Latin American Documentary Films Official Competition
Peru / 2019 / 73′ 53″ / Documentary Film
Language: Spanish, Quechua
Thematic: Native Peoples
Section: Food Sovereignty
Director: Alvaro Sarmiento, Diego Sarmiento
Contact: cinemaexpandido@gmail.com
Synopsis:

Sembradoras de vida follows five women from the Andean highlands in their daily struggle to maintain a traditional and organic way of working the land. In the Andean cosmovision, women and earth are strongly interrelated: the female body and the Earth’s soil are both capable of giving life and it is women who, connected by sisterhood, take on the role of protectors.

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