Muguarra
Muguarra” means family in the Emberà dialect. The project is committed to telling the story of an emberà-chami family forced to emigrate to Bogotà from their territory of origin. The shots reflect, through the present of the family nucleus, on the urbanization in a metropolis of nine million inhabitants of communities closely linked to contrasting natural environments and on the social situation that Colombia is going through regarding the armed conflict in the territories belonging to indigenous tribes . The story of Lus and Luis and their 10 children, like thousands of other indigenous families, was marked by violence and abuse. In 2004, due to the conflicts caused by drug trafficking groups and the FRACs, the community to which Lus and Luis belonged had to flee their territories of origin near Risaralda to head to Pereira. In 2013, due to 6 kidnappings of relatives of Luis, still missing, the family had to flee again to Bogota. In these movements Lus lost a son. Today Lus and Luis live in a popular house in the south of Bogota, through handicrafts and street singing of traditional songs they support the family. One of their biggest concerns after the unity of the family is to transmit their culture and preserve it even in an environment far from the traditional Embera imagery. I spent a month in Bogota to talk about their scars, their strength and the memory of a culture that lives in their memories and in nature.