MEG's Sunday films continue for another season, focusing on three essential and topical themes: identity, gender and sustainability.

Documentary, fiction and animated films addressing these themes are shown free of charge in the Museum's Auditorium on several Sundays each month.

Once again, MEG is joining forces with the FIFDH for a screening in the museum auditorium!

The film Dieu est une femme, by Andrés Peyrot, will be screened for the occasion.

I_n 1975, Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, a French explorer, travelled to Panama to make a film about the closed Kunas community. The project went bankrupt and the film was confiscated._
Fifty years later, the memory of this experience is still very vivid in the community, but no one has ever heard of the film again... However, one day, a hidden copy is found in Paris...
And with it the opportunity for the Kunas to revisit this history from their point of view, through the encounter between yesterday's images and those of today.
A testament to memory and a promise kept, God is a Woman dramatises the Kunas' quest to rediscover these images and the importance they play in reclaiming their history and identity.

Following the screening, there will be a discussion on the theme of Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Decolonising the Gaze and the Imagination, in the presence of members of the film team and a specialist in Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Latin America.

Documentary film is a place of memory, a record of a life lived. What role do images play in helping indigenous peoples to reclaim their history and identity? A look at the Kuna community from a non-colonial perspective.

Speakers:

• Andrés Peyrot: Director of "Dieu est une femme". Born in 1986. A Swiss-Panamanian director, director of photography and editor based in Paris, he is a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU). He was chief cinematographer on Jonathan Caouette's film WALK AWAY RENEE (2011), which was selected for Critics' Week in Cannes. He has filmed and edited a number of arts and culture documentaries for French television. DIEU EST UNE FEMME (2023) is his first feature-length documentary and had its world premiere at the Settimana della Critica in Venice.
• Anahy Gajardo: Doctor of Anthropology, Latin Americanist. Anahy Gajardo is a lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Neuchâtel and a specialist in Latin America.
• Cebaldo Inawinapi: Protagonist of "God is a woman". Cebaldo Inawipi hails from the Kuna archipelago in Panama. He is an anthropologist, author and poet.