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        Sembradoras de vida
        Maoriland Film Festival presentsSembradoras de vida

        Sembradoras de vida

        Screening with Ko Au Te Awa

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        Civic Theatre

        16 Main Street

        Otaki, New Zealand

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        Fri 20 Mar 2020

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        Sembradoras de vida

        Year: 2019
        Director: Diego Sarmiento, Alvaro Sarmiento
        Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes
        Language: Quechua, Spanish with English Subtitles
        Nation: Quechua
         
        This film portrays 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. Both, a woman’s body and the earth’s soil are capable of giving and nurturing life. In the context of ever-growing industrialisation of agriculture, the use of chemical pesticides and genetically modified seeds, it is women, who, connected to earth through bounds of sisterhood, take on the role of protectors.

        Screening with 
        Ko Au Te Awa

        Year: 2019
        Director: Jonathan Carson, Caleb Kingi
        Duration: 15 minutes 
        Language: English, Māori
        Nation: Te Atihaunui a Paparangi

        In 2017, the Whanganui river was granted legal personhood confirming what Māori already knew - the awa is an ancestor. Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au. I am the river and the river is me. 

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