María Canela Reyes

In the middle of the Guajira Desert, Doris, a young Wayúu woman, exhumes her cousin’s remains in order to meet her for the last time. Through a sensory journey, this ritual leads her to confront death and blend the world of the dreams with the world of the living.

The sound of metal creaking as if something is about to break. An old pickup truck adapted to carry passengers crosses the La Guajira desert in Colombia. With the wind come voices that merge among the passengers who travel there. A Wayuu woman returns to her territory, accompanied by her family, after years of exile due to a paramilitary massacre. A cyclical journey where the time layers of the territory touch and the border between the living and the dead is diluted.

Decades after they were forced to flee their village in the Colombian jungle, a community makes a poetically rendered return home.

After fleeing violence at age 15, Pacho spends four decades away from Anserma. Now a photograph sparks a desire to return, and on his journey home —imagined as an interstellar voyage— he searches for what he left behind. The lingering traces of death intertwine with a landscape of rural expressionism, memory, and history