Description

We’re thrilled to announce that God Is a Woman will have its Scottish premiere on 5 June. Directed by Andrés Peyrot and produced by Duiren Wagua, the film will screen in Scotland for the first time as part of Latin Connections.

This poignant and multi-layered documentary follows the journey of Panama’s Indigenous Kuna community as they recover a long-lost film made about them in the 1970s. What begins as a quest to retrieve missing footage unfolds into a powerful meditation on cultural memory, representation, and the right of Indigenous peoples to reclaim their own image.

In 1975, French Oscar-winning filmmaker Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau travelled to Panama to document the Kuna, where women are revered as sacred. Decades later, the film had become a legend — spoken of, but never seen. When director Andrés Peyrot uncovers the forgotten reels and returns them to the community, God Is a Woman becomes not only a documentary, but a moving reunion between a people and their own recorded history.

The film explores themes of cultural representation, memory, and the relationship between ethnographic filmmaking and the communities being documented.

📅 Friday 5 June
🕢 5 p.m.
📍 Greyfriar’s Charteris Centre, St Ninian’s Hall