FILM TITLE

Kueka, Memoria Ancestral / Kueka, Ancestral Memory

18+

15th March 2026 | 04:00 PM
The Theatre

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Image-Description
Country
Venezuela
Genre

Documentary

Language
Pemón Taurepan
Duration
75 mins
Director

María de los Ángeles Peña Fonseca

Festival And Awards

5th Festival Internacional de Cine del Choco, FICCHO, Quibdó - Chocó (Colombia) 2025; Latin American Photography & Film Festival “Verano Vienes”, Vienna  2025; 13th Festival Audiovisual Bariloche, Bariloche,  Argentina, 2025; 7ma Festival Itinerante de Cine Comunitario de la Tierra, Veracruz, Mexico, 2025

Synopsis

In a community located in the oldest place on planet Earth, in southern Venezuela, three generations of the Pemón people are fighting for the return of their ancestral grandmother, Kowai Kueka. Her spirit is embodied in a red jasper stone weighing more than 20 tons, which was stolen and transported to Germany without the community's consent to be part of an art installation. The council of wise men and women of Mapauri recalls the times when abundant food was a sign of the balance maintained by Kowai Kueka and Amoko, her grandfather. After her abduction, the planet's natural cycles were altered, generating relentless rains that flooded crops and punished hundreds of human beings, alternating with prolonged periods of drought. The guardians of ancestral memory embark on a journey of resistance against memory murder to restore natural balance.

Will the wise men and women be able to achieve the return journey of Grandmother Kueka, exhibited as an object in a Berlin park?

  • Cast

    N/A

  • Producer

    María de los Ángeles Peña Fonseca

  • Screenplay

    María de los Ángeles Peña Fonseca ,Dayana Gauthier

  • Cinematography

    Joel Ochoa, Marcos García, Andrés Durango Peláez, Rodrigo Benavides, Mohamed Hussain

  • Editing

    Dayana Gauthier

  • Sound

    Lino Ocando

  • Music

    Lino Ocando