Sembradoras de vida | Mothers of the Land
Culinary Cinema 2019
PER 2019
by: Álvaro & Diego Sarmiento
Sembradoras de vida | Mothers of the Land
Culinary Cinema 2019
PER 2019
by: Álvaro & Diego Sarmiento
Sembradoras de vida | Mothers of the Land
Culinary Cinema 2019
PER 2019
by: Álvaro & Diego Sarmiento
Sembradoras de vida | Mothers of the Land
Culinary Cinema 2019
PER 2019
by: Álvaro & Diego Sarmiento
Feb 14, 2019 Diego Sarmiento, Annemarie Gunkel, Álvaro Sarmiento
The brothers and directors with the screenwriter.
Culinary Cinema – Sembradoras de vida | Mothers of the Land
Feb 14, 2019 Diego Sarmiento, Thomas Struck, Álvaro Sarmiento
The two brothers and directors with the curator.
Culinary Cinema – Sembradoras de vida | Mothers of the Land
Mothers of the Land accompanies five women from the Andean highlands in their daily struggle to maintain a traditional and organic way of working the land. In the Andean worldview, women and the earth are strongly interrelated. Both, a women’s body and the earth’s soil are capable of giving and nurturing life. In the context of an ever-growing industrialisation of agriculture, the use of chemical pesticides and genetically modified seeds it is women, who, connected to the earth through bonds of sisterhood, take on the role of protectors.
by
Álvaro & Diego Sarmiento
Peru 2019
Spanish, Quechua
Documentary form74’ · Colour
World premiere
The Sarmiento brothers, Álvaro (born in 1982) and Diego (born in 1984), are two Peruvian directors whose films champion the rights of native peoples and the cause of environmental conservation. Their feature-length debut, Río Verde. El tiempo de los Yakurunas (Green River. The Time of the Yakurunas) premiered in the 2017 Forum and was shown at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight. Diego has directed several short films, two of which screened at the Berlinale: Hijos de la tierra (Earth’s Children) in Generation in 2014 and El sueño de Sonia (Sonia’s Dream) in the 2015 Culinary Cinema. Álvaro, who is also a visual artist and screenwriter, is a recipient of the Bellagio Center Arts & Literary Arts Residency and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship.
Filmography (selection)2008 Wanka Willka; 28 min., Video Installation 2011 Cerro de Pasco: Deep Grave; 49 min. 2014 Hijos de la tierra (Earth's Children); 15 min., Berlinale Generation K-Plus 2014 2015 El sueño de Sonia (Sonia's Dream); 15 min. 2017 Río Verde. El tiempo de los Yakurunas (Green River. The Time of the Yakurunas) 2018 Sembradoras de Vida
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019
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