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.