Best International Feature-length Documentary (2020)
La Vida en Común
201970 minPG
Synopsis
A puma stalks Pueblo Nación Ranquel, an indigenous community in the North of Argentina. Hunting is a rite of passage, and the older boys want to kill the puma. But Uriel chooses a different path.
La vida en común was shot in an indigenous community in the north of Argentina. The local government built twenty four concrete tents in the middle of the desert, a modern camp where lots of Ranquels from nearby cities moved to. It is a community’s origin, and the origin of a scenography that is also the protagonist of this film.
Credits
Director
Ezequiel Yanco
Ezequiel Yanco is a historian and filmmaker based in Buenos Aires (1976). He received a bachelor’s degree with honors in history from the University of Buenos Aires, and an MFA on creative writing from New York University. He taught at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. He has contributed to magazines such as Los Inrockuptibles and Le Nouvel Observateur. He co-edited Desconfiar de las imágenes (Caja Negra, 2013), a book that compiles a selection of Harun Farocki’s articles.
