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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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