We’re thrilled to announce that Dios es mujer (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 event will also take place in Durham. Click here for more information.
Original title: Dios es mujer
Dir. Andrés Peyrot (Panamá, France, Switzerland, 2023) 85′
📅 Friday 5th June
🕐 5pm
📍 Greyfriars Charteris Centre, St Ninian’s Hall, 138-140 Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9RR
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We will be joined by filmmakers Cebaldo de León and Olowaili Green from the Gunadule Territory. This screening will also feature two short films by Olowaili Green Santacruz: Mugan boe (The Cry of the Grandmothers) and the music video Canción sin miedo (Fearless Song). The event is presented in collaboration with SIGICS (University of Durham) and anthropologist Paolo Fortis, with additional support from the Flourish Fund (Durham).
Olowaili Green is visiting Scotland as a co-researcher of the RSE-funded project Disputed Histories and Heritages, led by Charlotte Gleghorn at the University of Edinburgh, while researching her new film Suggunya. The film tells the history of the Darién Scheme through the perspective of the Guna Dule people, narrated as an audiovisual mola.
About the God is a Woman:
This poignant and multi-layered documentary follows the journey of Panama’s Indigenous Guna 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 Guna, 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.