WAYS TO TRAVERSE A TERRITORY
(FORMAS DE ATRAVESAR UN TERRITORIO)

Winner, 2025 Best Feature Film Award

Official Selection, 2025 Indigenous Voices Series

Mexico | 2024 | 72 minutes | Dir. Gabriela Dominguez Ruvalcaba

Indigenous Tsotsil women tend their sheep and weave their wool while honoring their land’s memory. The encounter with the filmmaker, in their ancestral mountains, reveals a longing to acknowledge different ways of inhabiting the same territory.

TIERRA DE LECHE

Nicaragua | 2023 | 12 minutes | Dir. Milton Guillen, Fiona Hall

A group of Central American diary workers in the Northeastern USA reminisce about their relationship to the land, labor practices, and their home countries. Hours, days, weeks, and years pass by; and the repetitiveness of the labor makes way for new families in a non-place. These people, despite their initial dreams, never return home, where many of their families forget about them, or they are otherwise lost to time. The film is an exploration of multiple species exploited by capitalistic forces, and questions about the technologies we have created to maximize efficiency over liberation.