Fifty years after a documentary film was confiscated by a bank, the Indigenous Kuna people of Panama reclaim their story.
A French filmmaker’s commitment to an Indigenous community in Panama was broken when his documentary vanished. In 1975, the Kuna people had welcomed the filmmaker into their lives to document their culture, unaware that the production had stalled and the film reels had been seized by a bank.
For half a century, the community searched for the lost footage, as its story became a legend passed down from elders to younger generations. Decades later, decaying reels were discovered in the Panamanian Ministry of Culture, and a hidden copy of the film resurfaced in Paris. As elders recount the filmmaking process, a new generation steps forward to reclaim their cultural narrative.
The Lost Film of Panama is a documentary by Andres Peyrot.
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