Zoila
Gabriela Pena | Documentary
2021 | 75 minutes | Chile
When Gabriela discovers that Zoila, her childhood Mapuche indigenous nanny, doesn’t appear in the family tapes, she begins to question her mother's social construct.
Synopsis
Zoila’s home-movie aesthetic paints an intimate portrait of the titular Mapuche nanny whose absence from the frame poses important questions about the maternal relationship between her and the children she raised. Think Roma without the romanticization of the indigenous maid.
Throughout the film, the filmmaker tries to capture the essence of what unites her with her nanny, and also what separates them. Zoila’s figure was nebulous for too long, and to begin to understand it involved dismantling class, race, and gender conflicts that coexist among them as ghosts.
The diversity of the footage also exposes a battle of narrators wanting to film their history, which questions rigid ideas of parenting and expresses the genesis of a family under reconstruction.
Citation
Main credits
Pena, Gabriela (filmmaker)
Pinilla, Luciana (film producer)
Cofré, Adela (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Gabriela Pena, Montse Pena; editing, Gabriela Pena; music, Javier Díaz.
Citation
Cataloging
Pragda subjects
Culture + Identity
Economics + Social Class Issues
Family
Indigenous Peoples
Migration Studies
Race + Ethnicity
Sociology
South America
Women
Keywords
Clips
Festivals
Santiago International Film Festival; Ecuador Feminist Film Festival EQUIS;
Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival - Best Film
DIRECTOR: Gabriela Pena
NATIONALITY: Chile
YEAR: 2021
GENRE: Documentary
LANGUAGE: Spanish; Indigenous languages
COLOR / B&W: Color
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School, College, Adults
SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE
AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE
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