Guerreras

Evelyn, Alicia & Frida are three young Mexican women. They embrace nature as their home and use their bodies as a mirror of how they feel, they truly listen. By going inward, touching their subconsciousness, they hear generations of women being silenced through violence and trauma. The women feel a responsibility for the time we live in now. It’s time to speak up and reclaim the powers of women and nature: transformation, reconciliation & healing.

“Guerreras” (warrior women) is a debut-film directed by Lotte van Raalte. A hypnotic journey through body and mind, human and earth, silence and scream, pain and hope, ego and humility, disorder and harmony. The short film is an overwhelming portrait of women in a world of ancestral trauma and gender inequality. Through an experimental personal process van Raalte found her own voice, which she uses to speak up for those who have been silenced. It’s a film from generations of women, for all women and future generations.

Length: 12 min

Language: Spanish

Subtitles: English, Spanish & Dutch

Director & EP: Lotte van Raalte

Director of Photography: Jasper de Kloet

Editor: Annelien van Wijnbergen

Sound designer: Maluz Orozco

Colorist: Sofie Borup

1st Assistant director: Luna Antonia Arboleda

1st Camera assistant: Lars Inhulsen

Music composer: Carlos Orozco

Re-recording mixer: António Porem Pires