Content Details
Iwianch, The Devil Deer
Duration: 90′
Language: Spanish and Achuar
Subtitle: English
Production Year: 2021
Format: HD
Origin: Ecuador
SYNOPSIS
An enigmatic presence haunts the depths of the Amazon rainforest, where an indigenous Achuar teenager has disappeared. During the search for the young man, his family decides to consult with a Shaman, who, immersed in trance, reveals that the young man was taken by the devil, but that he has intervened by showing him the way back to his home. While waiting for his return, secrets of the rainforest and Amazonian visions of life after death are touched, vanishing the documentary filmmaker’s concepts of reality.
AWARDS
• Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker at Ann Arbor Film Festival
• Best Enviromental Latin American Film at Festival de Cine Ambiental de Cali
• Best Documentary Film at Jumara Indigenous FF Panama
• Closing Film at imagineNATIVE FF USA
• Selected at Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse