Norelly

Participatory Documentary) 18:00 min. HD, 2019
A film by Ñambi Rimai

Norelly is a young Inga Leader and the granddaughter of Taita Paulino. She grew up during one of the most violent periods of Colombia’s recent history and has seen how much her family has sacrificed overtime to protect their ancestral heritage, their land, and their medicinal knowledge. Like many other indigenous teenagers, Norelly is caught up between two cultures and ways of life. Due to the lack of indigenous schools and the constant influence from western societies, Norelly needs to choose to either abandon her culture and the values for which her family has fought or to fully embrace the Inga’s cultural tradtions as she continues her path into adulthood.