After the colonizing extermination, the native Indians of Canada have been confined to the reservations that the State has designated for them. Many wander, however, through downtown Vancouver, especially around Oppenheimer Park. Juan Manuel Sepúlveda (who initially thought of portraying the Latino gangs in the area) opens this documentary with a text that briefly explains this social phenomenon and slips in a piece of information that will make a lot of sense: there used to be an indigenous cemetery there.
This perhaps justifies the atavistic attachment to that place on the part of these characters without a future who face the present by drinking, keeping each other company and fighting like ancient warriors. Sepúlveda registers them from the inside as if he were one of the tribe. This intimacy is necessary to find – behind this community of displaced people – the obvious harms of marginality but also humor, tenderness and the latent traits of deep ancestral suffering.
– Andrés Nazarala
Category: Latin American Competition Director: Juan Manuel Sepúlveda Screenplay: Juan Manuel Sepúlveda, David Cunningham Producer: Juan Manuel Sepúlveda, Elsa Reyes and Isidore Bethel Photography: Juan Manuel Sepúlveda Editing: Isidore Bethel, León Felipe González and Juan Manuel Sepúlveda Sound: Pablo Fernández and José Miguel Henríquez
Duration: 70'
Mexico, 2016
This film is presented within the framework of the Santiago International Documentary Festival, FIDOCS.
Nov 11, 2016
Fri, 7:15 p.m.
Room A1
Building A, floor 1
$2,500 General.
$1,500 Est. and 3ed.
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