Gustavo Salvatierra returns to the forests of northwest Argentina to listen to the stories about fire, tigers, fish, and gods that have kept this society together and allows the people to see nature and time differently.
A patient journey northwards, to the water’s spring, taking the spectator along as well, following the soft footsteps of a Wichi who returns to Chaco to record the elders’ voices, in a slow, ceremonial rhythm opening up little-known dimensions of time and space typical of the Amerindian world: This is the background to Sip’ohi, el lugar del manduré, an ethno-poetic documentary, the product of rigorous and fearless experimental work, earning it Teueikan Second Prize.