Re-presentations of a People of the South: A Mapuche Film Cycle
Second screening: Reinterpretations: Contemporary Audiovisual Perspectives

REINTERPRETATIONS: CONTEMPORARY AUDIOVISUAL PERSPECTIVES

Date and time: December 10, 7 pm
Venue: Cine Doré, room 2, Madrid
Admission: Tickets available at the box office until capacity is reached. 10% of the venue’s capacity is reserved for visitors wishing to attend without an advance ticket on the day of the event.
Recommended age: All ages
Language: Original version with Spanish subtitles
Screening duration: 1 hour 43 minutes

MAPU KUFÜLL (2020), 5 min. by Seba Calfuqueo

Synopsis: Mapu Kufüll, meaning “land shellfish”, is the Mapudungun term for fungi. This animated tale reflects on the Mapuche cosmological worldview in relation to mushroom gathering and explores how fungi have become a symbol of resistance for the community.

Language: Mapudungun with Spanish subtitles
Format: Video animation

TRANKAL KURA / PIEDRA TRUENO (2022), 9 min, by Francisco Huichaqueo

Synopsis: Filmed in Chamichaco, Ercilla, Chile, the work captures performances of the choike purün and kollón purün dances. These dances took place on ancestral family land that is now occupied by a forestry company.
Language: Sound only
Format: Short film

MALA JUNTA (2016), 89 min, by Claudia Huaiquimilla

Synopsis: After committing another offence, Tano is sent to live with his father in the countryside, where he befriends Cheo, a shy young Mapuche man. A political conflict and turbulent relationships with their parents force the two teenagers to confront the prejudices they carry as they navigate the difficulties of adolescence.
Language: Spanish
Format: Feature film

Ange Cayuman is a Mapuche writer, journalist and audiovisual artist whose work focuses on film programming, audience engagement and audiovisual curation, with a particular interest in Indigenous archives, the diaspora of Indigenous Peoples and ancestral communities’ self-representations. Cayuman is a member of the Rangiñtulewfü collective and has been part of the programming team at FICWallmapu (Wallmapu International Indigenous Film Festival).

Sebastiana (Seba) Calfuqueo is a trans Mapuche artist whose practice challenges the dominant narratives shaped by colonial processes and their effects on contemporary Indigenous and Western societies. She is a curator at Espacio218 and a member of the Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü and the magazine Yene. Her work was recently recognized with the Focus Stand Prize at Frieze New York 2026. Calfuqueo has received extensive international recognition, including the Cuervo Prize at Zona Maco (2024), awards from the Ama Amoedo Foundation (2024) and the FAVA Foundation (2018), and the Eyebeam Fractal Fellowship Program (2020). She has participated as a guest artist in the Venice Biennale (2024), the Whitney Biennial (2024), the São Paulo Biennial (2021), the Mercosur Biennial (2020) and the Paiz Art Biennial (2020 and 2025). Her work is held in major international collections, including Tate Modern (United Kingdom), Center Pompidou (France), Denver Art Museum (United States), Museo MALBA (Argentina), TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, KADIST Collection (France), Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Chile) and MAC (Chile).