FILM ON WATER
QUEREMOS NUESTRA AGUA
Ecuador, 73 min., 2024. Dir: Eriberto Gualinga
The inhabitants of the Afro-descendant community of La Chiquita and the Awá Indigenous community of Guadualito were free to walk their rainforests, drink water, and bathe in their rivers. When the oil palm companies arrived, everything changed: they replaced the rainforest with monocultures and contaminated the water. Regardless, their cultures are still alive, and the young people listen attentively to the elders’ life stories and struggles.
The inhabitants of the Afro-descendant community of La Chiquita and the Awá Indigenous community of Guadualito were free to walk their rainforests, drink water, and bathe in their rivers. When the oil palm companies arrived, everything changed: they replaced the rainforest with monocultures and contaminated the water. Regardless, their cultures are still alive, and the young people listen attentively to the elders’ life stories and struggles.
Eriberto Gualinga
MARCHER SUR L´EAU
France - Belgium, 90 min., 2022. Dir: Aïssa Maïga
In the north of Niger, the village of Tatiste, a victim of global warming, is fighting for access to water. Every day, fourteen-year-old Houlaye, like other young people, walks for miles to fetch the water that is essential to life in the village. Among other things, this daily chore prevents them from attending school regularly. The lack of water also forces adults to leave their families every year to seek the resources they need to survive across the border. Yet this region has an aquifer lake covering several thousand square kilometres. All it would take is one borehole to bring the much-coveted water to the centre of the village and give everyone a better life.
In the north of Niger, the village of Tatiste, a victim of global warming, is fighting for access to water. Every day, fourteen-year-old Houlaye, like other young people, walks for miles to fetch the water that is essential to life in the village. Among other things, this daily chore prevents them from attending school regularly. The lack of water also forces adults to leave their families every year to seek the resources they need to survive across the border. Yet this region has an aquifer lake covering several thousand square kilometres. All it would take is one borehole to bring the much-coveted water to the centre of the village and give everyone a better life.
Aïssa Maïga