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THE SONG OF THE BUTTERFLIES
Original title: El canto de las mariposas.
2020, Peru-Colombia.
Documentary Feature.
Awarded Best Ibero-American Documentary in the Official Selection of the Guadalajara Film Festival (2020).
Screened at HotDocs, Seattle International Film Festival, Havana Film Festival, Málaga Film Festival, TV Perú, POV (PBS), among others.
Director and Screenwriter: Núria Frigola Torrent.
Executive Producers: Rolando Toledo Vega and Núria Frigola Torrent.
Cinematography: Nicolás Landa Tami.
Editing: Nicolé H. Céspedes.
Original Music: Karin Zielinski.
Poster Designer: Alex Valcárcel.
Featuring: Rember Yahuarcani López, Santiago Yahuarcani López, Nereida López Gutierrez.
And the voice of: Martha López.
Synopsis:
Rember Yahuarcani is an Indigenous painter from the White Heron clan of the Uitoto Nation in Peru. He left to pursue a successful career in Lima, but when he finds himself in a creative rut, he returns home to his Amazonian community of Pebas, visiting his father, a painter, and his mother, a sculptor, and discovers why the stories of his ancestors cannot be forgotten.