Duiren Wagua

En 1975, Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, explorateur français oscarisé pour son documentaire Le Ciel et la Boue, se rend au Panama pour réaliser un film sur la communauté fermée des Kunas, où la femme est sacrée. Gaisseau, son épouse et leur fille Akiko vivent avec les Kunas pendant une année. Mais le projet fait faillite et la copie est confisquée par une banque.Cinquante ans plus tard, les Kunas attendent toujours de découvrir « leur » film, devenu une légende transmise par les plus anciens aux plus jeunes. Un jour, une copie cachée est retrouvée à Paris...

Colonialism wiped out many Central and South American cultures, but not the Gunadule, the indigenous people of northern Panama. In 1925 they successfully resisted the repression of their culture by the Panamanian government. In three days of fighting, they won their autonomy and thus saved their way of life. Known as the “Dule Revolution,” the glorious battle is commemorated annually with a reenactment involving hundreds of participants, including many children. Bila Burba, made by Duiren Wagua, a member of the Gunadule, shows the reenactment of the successful revolution, and looks back with descendants of the revolutionaries on the reasons for the uprising and the course of the events. ...

Colonialism wiped out many Central and South American cultures, but not the Gunadule, the indigenous people of northern Panama. In 1925 they successfully resisted the repression of their culture by the Panamanian government. In three days of fighting, they won their autonomy and thus saved their way of life. Known as the “Dule Revolution,” the glorious battle is commemorated annually with a reenactment involving hundreds of participants, including many children. Bila Burba, made by Duiren Wagua, a member of the Gunadule, shows the reenactment of the successful revolution, and looks back with descendants of the revolutionaries on the reasons for the uprising and the course of the events. ...