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Ways to traverse a territory
Dir. Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba
Formas de atravesar un territorio | 2024 | Mexico | 72 min.
Synopsis
A family of Indigenous Tsotsil women—shepherds and wool weavers—care for their sheep while honoring the memory of their land. Their encounter with the filmmaker, in their ancestral mountains, reveals a longing to recognize different ways of inhabiting the same territory.
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Film credits
Directed by
Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba
Producers
Pía Quintana Enciso
Cinematography
Natali Montell
Edited by
Dalia Huerta Cano
Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba
Sound
Emma Viviana González
Sound designer
Christian Giraud
Music composer
Arcadio M. Lanz
Production companies
Bosquenegro
Estudio Errante
Estudios Churubusco
Articles
- PROCINE - "A documentary that recovers Tsotsil identity, language, and traditions"
- GIRLS AT FILMS - "A documentary exercise that invites audiences to explore the dynamics surrounding a community of Tsotsil women who live in the mountains near San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, and which will now be part of the Critics’ Week at the Locarno Film Festival"
- EL SOL DE MÉXICO - "Gabriela Domínguez shows two ways of existing in the documentary Ways to traverse a territory"
- CRÓNICA - "Ways to traverse a territory explores the bonds between generations and nature"
- UDG TV - "Ways to traverse a territory, the Mexican documentary that arrives at the Locarno Film Festival"
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