Sembradoras de vida (Mothers of the land)

MOTHERS OF THE LAND accompanies five women from the Andean highlands in their daily struggle to maintain a traditional and organic way of working the land.

In the Andean Cosmovision, women and earth are strongly interrelated. Both, a women’s body and the earth’s soil are capable of giving and nurturing life.

In the context of an ever-growing industrialization of agriculture, the use of chemical pesticides and genetically modified seeds it is women, who, connected to earth through bounds of sisterhood, take on the role of protectors.

East Coast USA Premiere

Alvaro Sarmiento, Diego Sarmiento
Peru // 2019
Documentary
Spanish, Quechua
74 Minutes

Co-Presented by Justice For My Sister