Zoila

Gabriela Pena | Documentary

2021 | 75 minutes | Chile

When Gabriela discovers that Zoila, her childhood Mapuche indigenous nanny, doesn’t appear in the family tapes, she begins to question her mother's social construct.

Synopsis

Zoila’s home-movie aesthetic paints an intimate portrait of the titular Mapuche nanny whose absence from the frame poses important questions about the maternal relationship between her and the children she raised. Think Roma without the romanticization of the indigenous maid.

Throughout the film, the filmmaker tries to capture the essence of what unites her with her nanny, and also what separates them. Zoila’s figure was nebulous for too long, and to begin to understand it involved dismantling class, race, and gender conflicts that coexist among them as ghosts.

The diversity of the footage also exposes a battle of narrators wanting to film their history, which questions rigid ideas of parenting and expresses the genesis of a family under reconstruction.

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Main credits

Pena, Gabriela (filmmaker)
Pinilla, Luciana (film producer)
Cofré, Adela (film producer)

Other credits

Cinematography, Gabriela Pena, Montse Pena; editing, Gabriela Pena; music, Javier Díaz.


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Festivals

Santiago International Film Festival; Ecuador Feminist Film Festival EQUIS;
Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival - Best Film

DIRECTOR: Gabriela Pena

NATIONALITY: Chile

YEAR: 2021

GENRE: Documentary

LANGUAGE: Spanish; Indigenous languages

COLOR / B&W: Color

GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School, College, Adults

SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE

AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE

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