Festival start: 20 June 2025
Festival end: 28 June 2025
The Latin American Coordinator of Film and Communication of Indigenous Peoples - CLACPI opens this call to participate in the 15th International Film and Communication Festival of Indigenous Peoples "Voices and Images of Our Mother Earth" to be held from June 20 to 28, 2025 in Peru, with the main venue being the city of Lima, with activities and exhibitions in the cities of Ayacucho, Iquitos and Pucallpa.
Works of the following audiovisual genres may participate: fiction, documentary, report, animation, video clip, experimental, program or series, or any combination thereof, regardless of their duration and format, whose theme addresses the culture, history, traditions, narratives, realities, aspirations, organizational processes, demands and struggles of Indigenous Peoples from any part of the world, placing special emphasis on the situation of indigenous women, youth and children and that include aspects of climate change.
Works completed from 2022 to date will be accepted.
Reception of Works:
Deadline for registration and reception of works: February 15, 2025, until 6:00 p.m.
(Lima, Peru time).
Download the registration form at: http://www.clacpi.org • http://www.chirapaq.org.pe
The Jury will award 2 (two) recognitions among the works presented, taking into account the diversity of genres and formats, under the following thematic axes:
1. Women and territorial resistance
2. Collective knowledge, identities and climate action
3. Present childhoods and uncertain futures
4. Mobilizations for Mother Earth
5. Identities from diversity
The prizes and recognitions that will be awarded will be statuettes inspired by the work of the Huitoto-Cocama artist Rember Yahuarcani.
The decisions of the Selection Committee and the Jury are final and will be reflected in a document that will support each recognition. The Jury reserves the right to declare one or more prizes void.
Additionally, the attending public will award the Special Public Prize.
In addition to the official recognitions, the Honorable Mentions that the Jury considers necessary to award as an incentive to the creation and production processes will be awarded.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The Latin American Coordinator of Film and Communication of Indigenous Peoples - CLACPI through its member organizations in Peru: CHIRAPAQ Center of Indigenous Cultures of Peru, the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Jungle - AIDESEP and the Amazonian Film School under the motto "Voices and Images of Our Mother Earth".
WE INVITE
Our indigenous sisters and brothers from all continents, indigenous organizations, collectives, communicators, indigenous and non-indigenous filmmakers and all persons throughout the world who produce, promote and disseminate audiovisual works that reflect the voices, visions, knowledge and struggles of indigenous peoples, to participate in the 15th International Film and Communication Festival of Indigenous Peoples.
RULES
Works of the following audiovisual genres may participate: fiction, documentary, report, animation, video clip, experimental, program or series, or any combination thereof, regardless of their duration and format, whose theme addresses the culture, history, traditions, narratives, aspirations, organizational processes, demands and struggles of Indigenous and Native Peoples from any part of the world.
Special attention will be paid to works that emphasize the situation of indigenous women, youth and children and that address aspects of climate change.
Works produced from 2022 to date will be accepted.
Works that promote racism or discrimination of any kind, that discriminate against women or justify gender violence, as well as works that promote a political party or religious group, will not be accepted; nor will those that promote institutions or specific groups for profit or state propaganda purposes.
Works that have already participated in previous editions of the International Film and Communication Festival of Indigenous Peoples organized by CLACPI will not be accepted.
Women and Territorial Resistance Actions
Short and Feature Films 180'<
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15 Feb 25
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The territory, as a life project, is both a cultural and political space.
It is cultural because our life systems respond to the challenges and understanding of the physical and immaterial environment and it is political because the territory guarantees the continuity of these processes, in any area, not only in the rural but also in the urban, with indigenous women being the articulating axis of knowledge.
The symbolic link between women and the land as creators of life is joined by the observation that it is indigenous women who have found themselves at the forefront of the defense and care of the territory, as well as of their peoples, being the guiding thread of knowledge and know-how.
In this way, under this theme are grouped all the productions that account for the situation of indigenous women, girls and young people, their links with the territory and of these as an expression and project of life and resistance of indigenous peoples.
Collective Knowledge , Identity and Climate Action
Short and Feature Films 180'<
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15 Feb 25
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Climate change has been the central point of concern in the development of global policies that guarantee not only access to food and livelihoods, but also the very continuity of humanity.
Climate change, as a phenomenon, is not new in global history; what is new is the speed at which it is occurring. Indigenous peoples have been facing its effects: prolonged droughts, water shortages due to the loss of glaciers, sudden changes in temperature, pests, etc. and in this process, they have been recovering ancestral techniques and knowledge, as well as experimenting with the adaptation of various plants.
Super foods such as corn and quinoa, among others, are in themselves cultural facts that include methods and techniques for their adaptation; in this sense, the indigenous as an expression of a set of knowledge and processes of their own, represent an opportunity to face the effects of climate change.
In this way, under this theme are grouped the productions that account for the collective knowledge regarding the natural, physical and spiritual environment, the processes of cultural affirmation referring to the recovery of knowledge, the strengthening of indigenous identities as part of the political action that, among its effects or incidence, lead to taking a position as peoples regarding climate policies and to develop proposals and actions in their territories.
Children of today and uncertain futures
Short and Feature Films 180'<
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15 Feb 25
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Indigenous childhoods are worlds of uncertainty.
The different problems that affect indigenous peoples have deep and direct effects on childhood, and yet indigenous childhoods are spaces of imagination and play, of learning and wonder, of socialization in the daily life of exclusive societies.
Childhoods, as hope for our continuity as peoples, now have various possibilities and various paths.
Thus, under this theme are grouped all the productions that address the worlds of indigenous childhood, in their problems, dilemmas and hopes.
Actions for Mother Earth
Short and Feature Films 180'<
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15 Feb 25
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In the last two years, threats and murders of forest defenders have increased.
This increase, in the countries of the Amazon region, is due to the weakening of the State by governments that facilitate the presence of extractive economies at all levels and situations. Armed conflicts, drug trafficking, smuggling and exploitation of resources create a situation of constant danger for indigenous peoples, while, paradoxically, they also create opportunities for access to economic means that allow them to access goods and services.
This situation has a profound impact on the stability of indigenous peoples: on the one hand, mobilizations for the recovery and defense of territories and on the other hand, the need for employment opportunities. Successful cases that have made it possible to stop extractive initiatives that, clearly, if they had continued, would have meant environmental deterioration, are faced with the reality of abandonment and questioning about “the lost opportunity.”
This situation, which is occurring at a global level, poses challenges in terms of building an economic model that allows for environmental sustainability and the role and contribution of indigenous peoples in the proposal, construction or development of this model.
Thus, under this theme, productions that address the situation, proposals and actions of indigenous peoples and organizations in our struggle to defend territories and Mother Earth are grouped.
Identities shaped by diversity
Short and Feature Films 180'<
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15 Feb 25
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There is no one way to be indigenous.
The indigenous has been expressed from many registers and feelings, from diverse versions and visions, constituting a rich ocean of voices whose common objective is to have the right to be and express themselves.
Whether from sexual diversity or from the musical register, the indigenous has been constructed and re-signified in many ways, often questioned within the indigenous movement.
To account for this diversity of the indigenous being, under the present theme all the productions that explore these feelings or account for their processes, contradictions, achievements and dilemmas are grouped.
