Artist's Choice Screening: Toroboro: The Name of the Plants

Selected by Adrián Balseca as one of his Artist's Choice Screening for In the Forest Ruins

25 years after a renowned ethno-botanical study in the Ecuadorian Amazon region inhabited by the Waorani, the central figures involved reunite. Members of the community talk about the genocidal colonization of their people since the arrival of Christian missionaries and about the  main threats to their survival, now the oil and timber industries. 

Toroboro: The Name of the Plants was the winner of multiple awards at documentary film festivals across the globe including the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa)