OUR DEMAND / SENDA INDIA
(Daniela Seggiaro, Argentina, 2023, 80 min. In Spanish and Wichí with English subtitles)
U.S. Premiere!
In the early 1990s, as the Wichí community of northern Argentina fought for legal recognition of their ancestral territory, a young man named Miguel Ángel Lorenzo began filming what he knew best: everyday life. With a Hi8 camcorder in hand, he recorded walks through the forest, and shared routines, school gatherings, visits between neighbors, and moments when the outside world intruded – including the presence of a judge. Decades later, filmmaker Daniela Seggiaro returns to these images, assembling a film shaped by Indigenous perspectives and community memory. Our Demand moves beyond the courtroom to reveal a worldview in which land is not property but a living relationship, where language, forest, and communal life are inseparable. The result is a quietly powerful testament to a struggle that is at once legal, cultural, and profoundly existential.
Thursday, April 16, 7:30pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)
For tickets and more information visit: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/59363
Presented as part of Lost & Found: Cine(ma)s Latinoamericanos Re-unidos, co-programmed by Matías Piñeiro and Carlos A. Gutiérrez.
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