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World Cinema

God Is a Woman

Dieu est une femme

France, Panama, Switzerland

Spanish

2023

85 mins

Asia Premiere

Festival History

Venice Int'l Film Festival 2023, Toronto Int'l Film Festival 2023

World Cinema

God Is a Woman

Dieu est une femme

France, Panama, Switzerland

Spanish

2023

85 mins

Asia Premiere

Festival History

Venice Int'l Film Festival 2023, Toronto Int'l Film Festival 2023

The Kuna community in the Guna Yala islands off Panama’s Caribbean coast is one of the largest remaining Indigenous tribes in Latin America. In 1975, Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, an Oscar-winning French filmmaker and anthropologist, spent a year documenting the Kuna’s matrilocal society. He promised to share the resulting film with the community, but that never happened. In recent years, the Kuna have been on a quest to see that promise fulfilled, Arysteides Turpana being one of the most dogged among them. God is a Woman follows Turpana’s quest and captures how a younger Kuna generation is making their own media.

Credits

Lead Cast

Arysteides Turpana

Laida Diaz de Prestan

Olonigdi Chiari

Cebaldo Inawinapi

Orgun Wagua

Duiren Wagua

Demetria Prestan Diaz

Demetriana Prestan Diaz

Sidsagi Inatoy

Writer

Andrés Peyrot & Elizabeth Wautlet

Director of Photography

Patrick Tresch (SCS) & Nicolas Desaintquentin

Editor

Sabine Emiliani

Sound Designer

Luis Bravo

Luis Lasso

Damien Perrollaz & Samy Bardet

Music Director

Grégoire Auger

Story

Andrés Peyrot & Elizabeth Wautlet

Screenwriter

Andrés Peyrot & Elizabeth Wautlet

Directed by

Andrés Peyrot

Producer/s

Brieuc Dréano

Andrés Peyrot

Johan De Faria

Sebastian Deurdilly

Bénédicte Perrot

Production Company/ies

Industrie Films

Upside Films

Contact


Rights Holder

Alberto Alvarez

alberto@pyramidefilms.com


World Sales Agent

Alberto Alvarez

alberto@pyramidefilms.com


Director

Andres Peyrot

Andrés Peyrot is a Swiss-Panamanian filmmaker based in Paris. After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Andrés most notably shot Jonathan Caouette’s film Walk Away Renee, selected for the 2011 Cannes Critics’ Week. He has filmed and edited numerous arts and culture documentaries for French TV. He also co-wrote and edited Emperors ofNothing (2023), a feature documentary by Cédric Gerbehaye about an infamous Belgian prison. God is a Woman, his first feature documentary, premiered at the Settimana della Critica and Toronto Film Festival in 2023.