An alloy between two terms arbitrarily assumed to be dissimilar: the documentary record and the staging. Five years in the experience of an indigenous group to reveal from within the complexity of a process that goes from submission to organization.

Recently restored, Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva’s mystical first feature allies political force with aesthetic beauty. Cherishing the imperiled land and rituals of an indigenous people in Colombia, the couple’s rousing poetic documentary traces how history is made and cultures are kept alive.