CinemaOSMovie · 2021 · 0h 17m

The Return

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It’s spring in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Uyantza festival is underway with the community celebrating all that the forest has to offer. Meanwhile, news is breaking around the world that a novel virus is spreading and a state of emergency is declared across the country. As people test positive for COVID-19 in the community, some families decide to leave and head deeper into the jungle. Disconnected from school, friends, the internet, and work, one family learns to reconnect with life in the forest. The children begin to unlearn the national curriculum, and instead are taught Indigenous knowledge that mainstream schools normally pass over. As COVID-19 wreaks havoc around the planet, the family reconnect to their ancestral ways, but as news arrives that Ecuador’s lockdown will end soon, will the family choose to return?

Directed byEriberto Gualinga

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Released
Runtime
0h 17m
Language
EN
Released
June 5, 2021

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Eriberto Gualinga
Eriberto Gualinga
Produced by
Marc Silver
Marc Silver
Nina Gualinga

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