International Panorama · 46th Edition
The Memory of Butterflies
La memoria de las mariposas
Director
Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski
Country
Peru, Portugal
Runtime
1 h 17 min
Language
Spanish, Murui Huitoto
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
Emerging from the shadows of the rubber boom, the forgotten stories of Omarino and Aredomi are recovered in a sensory journey that intertwines the filmmaker's personal story with early 20th-century Amazonian archives.
Screenplay
Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski
Producers
Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski, Isabel Madueño Medina, Ico Costa
About the Director
She is a Peruvian filmmaker whose work bridges experimental and documentary cinema, exploring themes of memory, colonial histories, and collective healing. She studied Performing Arts in Peru and Film and New Media at Le Fresnoy—Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France. Her previous films have been showcased at prestigious festivals, including Doclisboa, Oberhausen, and Art of the Real.
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