Latin American indigenous cinema, cosmopolitics, the common and comunalidad

The struggle in the films of Luna Marán and Bia Pankararu

Abstract

This work focuses on the cinema of Zapotec director Luna Marán and screenwriter Pankararu, Bia Pankararu, focusing on the theme of struggle present in the feature films Rama Pankararu (2022) and Tio Yim (2019). This approximation between the two works seeks dialogues about the representation of the symbolic and material struggles that surround the routine of these Amerindian peoples from Mexico and Brazil. For this analysis, concepts such as cosmopolitics, from the perspective of Isabelle Stengers (2018), and the common, from the perspective of Silvia Federici (2014) and Raquel Gutiérrez (2017), will be used as an instrument to reflect on the ways of living and of fighting present in the cinema of the directors.