Resonant Mapuche Identity Doc ‘La Búsqueda Del Otro’ Readied by Hot Docs, Sanfic Alums Pejeperro Films
variety.comHolly Jones Chilean filmmaker Cons Gallardo Vásquez, whose 2017 debut “In Transit” was awarded at BioBío Cine and Sanfic, is readying their next project, “La Búsqueda Del Otro” (“Searching For the Other”), featured at this week’s Sanfic Industria’s Works In Progress strand, one of the highest profile pix-in-post showcases in South America.
Produced by Esteban Sandoval Carrasco, executive director at Pejeperro Films (“Bajo Sospecha: Zokunentu”), the project gives a tender nod to personas who are half-realized and a human being with intricate layers seen only for those who look below the surface.
With a healthy disdain toward the deluge of labels thrust upon anyone that veers from the straight and narrow, Gallardo Vásquez sets off in search of Machi Marcelina, a Mapuche elder and spiritual figure unjustly detained in a men’s prison after being accused of killing one of her patients.
Stripped of her dignity, she returned to her community and retreated inward. The first film to visualize the concept of ‘Weye,’ a term coined by colonizing forces that alludes to the homosexuality of a Mapuche figure, the project remarks on the explicitly persecutory nature of societal alienation and the profound importance of remaining vulnerable. “There’s something very delicate about this project.
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