The Wind’s Thirst

by Alejandro Valbuena
In Colombia's La Guajira desert, three Wayuu guardians rally against wind farms built on sacred burial grounds.
2004  ·  1h26m  ·  Canada, Colombia
Spanish, Wayuunaki
English subs
About the Film

In the wind-scoured desert of La Guajira—Colombia, where rivers vanish, and machines roar with an insatiable hunger, three Wayuu guardians stand against a siege disguised as progress.

Tita, keeper of ancestral land, sees the trap woven in the wind companies’ promises. Misael fights for the Bruno River, now a ghost, guided by dreams that speak in water and warning. Jazmine, fierce with grief, battles for Wayuu women, for stolen futures, for the right to exist.

Their struggle is survival, their defiance a promise to the land, they will not disappear.

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About the Director

Alejandro Valbuena

Born in Colombia, Amerindian multidisciplinary artist Alejandro Valbuena moved to Canada at the end of the century, an abundance of professional projects already under his belt. Valbuena quickly became a member of the Director’s Guild of Canada and worked as a 1st Assistant Director in a number of films, TV series and M.O.Ws.

 

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