Fifty years after a documentary movie was confiscated by a financial institution, the Indigenous Kuna folks of Panama reclaim their story.
A French filmmaker’s promise to an Indigenous group in Panama is shattered when his documentary disappears. The Kuna folks had opened their lives to be documented in 1975 however by no means knew that manufacturing had dried up and the movie reels had been seized by a financial institution.
For half a century, the group looked for the misplaced footage as its story turned a legend handed down from elders to youthful generations. Many years later, decaying reels are found within the Panamanian Ministry of Tradition, and a hidden copy of the movie resurfaces in Paris. As elders recount the filmmaking course of, a brand new technology rises to reclaim their cultural narrative.
The Misplaced Movie of Panama is a documentary by Andres Peyrot.
