Chilpancingo, Gro.Today at the Cinema Girona, the Nahua documentary filmmaker, José Luis Matías Alonso, presented at the Indigenous Film Festival of Barcelona, Spain, his documentary “Huexca in resistance-10 years of struggle”, made in 2022 under his direction, with the support and Rosalba Díaz Velásquez, from the Autonomous University of Guerrero, “it is important that cinema made from indigenous peoples can be told in other spaces and other communities,” said the director.
The work of the Nahua indigenous was presented at the 17th edition of the Barcelona Indigenous Film Festival –IndiFest– which will take place from October 9 to 20, and in which 45 audiovisual works from different territories of the world will be presented, from of which five come from Mexico.
Precisely, IndiFest promotes this day a day dedicated to the struggles and resistance of indigenous peoples, which coincides with October 12, a protest date on the day of indigenous resistance.
Interviewed before his departure to Spain, Matías Alonso stated that the word and thought of the people who organize and fight must “be heard in Europe where there are companies that are supporting a megaproject without consulting the people.”
José Luis Matías’ Ojo de Tigre production company, responsible for the work, belongs to the intercontinental collective Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas (CLACPI).
The documentary is a tribute to a Nahua people from Morelos that faces, together with communities from Tlaxcala and Puebla, the dispossession of their natural resources through the energy and hydro-extractivist megaproject “Plan Integral Morelos”, promoted by the Mexican State. associated with the Spanish companies Abengoa, Elecnor and Enaga “men and women armed with their dignity face the monster of dispossession and violence defending their water, land and territory.”
The Nahua documentary filmmaker stated: “we met Teresa Castellanos in 2020 at their sit-in in front of the thermoelectric plant. We visited the community; and their proposal was captured, and work in the community was presented as part of their policies. Huexca is a Nahua community in Morelos, the most beautiful in the municipality.”
Matías Alonso said that the documentary will be submitted to the evaluation of a jury, which will finally choose the best documentary of IndiFest 2024, in which the animation and fiction genres also participate.
Other Mexican films that will be present are: “Mamá” spoken in Tzotzil, by the Chiapas filmmaker Xun Sero; and “Buncan Tu Rhachhidu” (Abandon what scares you), in Mixe, by Oaxacan filmmaker Luna Marán; “Valentina or serenity”, by Oaxacan Ángeles Cruz; and “The Train and the Peninsula”, by director Andrea Kruger Foncerrada.
In addition, films from the Mapuche, Aymara and Quechua peoples, and from countries in Northern Europe and Asia, will be shown.
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