YUYARIKUNA FILMS - "HIJOS DE LA LLUVIA" SHORTFILM

SHORTFILM ''HIJOS DE LA LLUVIA''

FOR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL "WE ART WATER"

This short film was created as part of the international competition of the "We are water" festival focused on raising awareness of the issues of access to water and the climate crisis. Being a finalist among other short films from all over the world . Short film in competion here

The Wayuu, an indigenous community in Colombia, according to their world view, are the children of "Juya", God of the rains, and "Mma", Mother Earth. Between the desert and the Caribbean Sea, they have learned to live and understand their vital relationship with water: its use both physically and spiritually. They themselves seek this resource on long walks to bring it to their communities, but today access to water is no longer found in the same sources they had some time ago. Now they are scarce because all these water sources are becoming more and more scarce due to global warming and the little infrastructure of drinking water in a large percentage is being used for mega-mining, like the El Cerrejón carbon mine. The lack of access to water is currently generating a contingency of diseases in these populations, and these children of the rain are increasingly losing their essential relationship with this vital resource.
It is time for governments and all of us to listen to the earth and be the children of the rain again, to be the guardians of water, of "Juya".

Article about the shortfilm here