Sembradoras de vida

The film accompanies five women from the Andean highlands in their daily struggle to maintain a traditional and organic way of working the land. In the Andean cosmovision, women and earth are strongly interrelated. Both, a women’s body and the earth’s soil are capable of giving and nurturing life.

Rigoberta Menchú Honorable Mentionto Sembradoras de vida by Alvaro and Diego Sarmiento For a film that immerses us in the work and the lives of Peruvian women farmers, full of energy and proud of their ancestral traditions, an honorable mention in the Rigoberta Menchú category is awarded to Sembradoras de vida.