THE SONG OF THE BUTTERFLIES
Peru - 2020
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STORYLINE
Rember Yahuarcani is an Indigenous painter from the White Heron clan of the Uitoto Nation in Peru. He left to pursue a successful career in Lima, but when he finds himself in a creative rut, he returns home to his Amazonian community of Pebas, visiting his father, a painter, and his mother, a sculptor, and discovers why the stories of his ancestors cannot be forgotten.
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
65 min
Awarded Best Ibero-American Documentary in the Official Selection of the Guadalajara Film Festival (2020).
Main Award Documentary Section, International Festival Signs of the Night in Bangkok (2021)
Awarded in FICWALLMAPU, Chile (2023).
Director and Screenwriter: Núria Frigola Torrent.
Producers: Rolando Toledo and Núria Frigola Torrent
DP: Nicolás Landa Tami
Editing: Nicolé H. Céspedes
Original Music: Karin Zielinsky
Producers: Rolando Toledo and Núria Frigola Torrent
Featuring: Rember Yahuarcani López, Santiago Yahuarcani López, Nereida López Gutierrez.
And the voice of: Martha López.
Country of production: Peru