Cochihza, “she awakens the sleeping one”, one says about the Cuicuitzcal swallow, in Nahuatl, the language of the ancestors. In Nahuatl, many words are derived from the root cochi — to sleep. It expresses both sleep and dream, but also lying down, the dinner, the subsistance, the cocoon built by caterpillars, the eyelashes, leaving, yawning, making love to a woman, sleeping next to her, the place where one sleeps, waking up, pretending to sleep… Ometepe, the volcano island. A landscape like a sleeping body. Here life is described as a specific rhythm, which man adopts at birth and keeps for all his life. A story of a world unfolds within the gestures of the volcano’s community. Daily life, settling down, dreams, memory.
Production: Alter ego films
Co-production: CBA
With the support of the Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles et de VOO
2020:
Pravo Ljudski, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 12/20
2015:
Punto de Vista, Spain, 03/15
MoMa’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media, USA, 03/15
2014:
Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland, 04/14
Encuentro del Otro Cine, Ecuador, 04/14
Ethno film Festival, the Heart of Slovania, Croatia, 06/14
Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire de Lussas, France, 08/14
Days of Ethnographic Cinema, Russia, 09/14
Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur (FIFF), Belgium, 10/14
Taiwan Documentary Film Festival, Taiwan, 10/14
Festival A Nous de Voir, France, 11/14
Iran International Film Festival, Iran, 12/14
2013:
Filmer à tout Prix, Belgium, 11/13 – Prix Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Filmer à tout Prix (Belgium) – Prix de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles 2013
BOZAR (Bruxelles)
