The rights of indigenous peoples: decolonising perspectives and imaginations
In 1975, Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, a French explorer, travelled to Panama to make a film about the closed Kunas community. The project went bankrupt and the film was confiscated. Fifty years later, the memory of this experience is still very vivid in the community, but no one outside of their community has ever heard of the film.
But one day, a hidden copy is found in Paris… And with it an opportunity for the Kunas to revisit this story from their point of view, through the encounter between images of yesterday and those of today.
Andrés Peyrot
Director of "Dieu est une femme"
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Anahy Gajardo
Doctorate in anthropology, Latin Americanist
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Cebaldo Inawinapi
Protagonist of "Dieu est une femme"
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Yannick Gilestro
Agathe Le Vaslot
French
God is a woman
In 1975, Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, a French explorer who had recently won an Oscar, travelled to Panama to make a film about the secluded Kunas community, where women are sacred. Gaisseau, his wife and their daughter Akiko live with the Kunas for a year. But the project went bankrupt and the bank confiscated the film. Fifty years later, the Kunas are still waiting to discover “their” film, which has become a legend passed down from older to younger generations. One day, a hidden copy is found. Dieu est une femme (God is a Woman) examines the relationship between the protagonists and the documentary filmmakers in the context of the decolonisation of the human gaze and cinema.
Johan De Faria
Sebastian Deurdilly
Bénédicte Perrot
Andrés Peyrot
INDUSTRIE FILMS
UPSIDE FILMS
P.S. Productions
Nicolas Desaintquentin
Luis Lasso
Damien Perrollaz
Samy Bardet
