In the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau, this thought-provoking film takes you on a journey that follows courageous local women who challenge patriarchy by building institutions that promote self-sufficiency through agro-ecology. They also challenge social norms by opposing female genital mutilation and rejecting forced marriage. Overtaking the legacy of Amilcar Cabral, the Bissau-Guinean independence leader who placed women’s rights at the centre of the liberation struggle, women of a rising generation are taking back their power.

During the first days after the 1973 coup d’état, the political leadership of the Popular Unity government was arrested and taken to Dawson Island, the Magallanes region, at the southern tip of Chile and the mainland. The wives of the then political prisoners began a relentless effort to find out the whereabouts of their husbands and then try to return them alive. In these circumstances, they spontaneously came together and organised themselves into what they called the “Dawsonianas” group

The story begins with volunteer work carried out in the winter of 1999 in the Mapuche community Choin Lafkenche in the southern part of Chile. Here we met Julio Huentekura Llancaleo, a young Mapuche from Santiago de Chile, and together we travelled through different communities of Malleko recording the voices of the moment. After 20 years we returned to Chile after the Social Outbreak and the COVID 19 pandemic to learn more about Julio who was treacherously murdered in a capital city prison. We travelled through the Wallmapu meeting and sharing with new Mapuche communities their struggle and their current demands in the process of territorial recuperation