Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future (1982, Marta Rodrguez & Jorge Silva)

An essential yet underseen work of Latin American political cinema, Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future is a poetic nonfiction essay on the centuries-long resistance by indigenous farmers of Colombia’s Coconuco region. Between fantastical visualizations of myth and legend, the film documents the development of the CRIC, the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca, and their defiant efforts to take back ancestral earth from a long history of land grabs—a record the film traces from Spanish conquistadors to the Catholic Church to the current wealthy landowners.