Hucha mítetixapquia escacsi hupiringa, máteru cuiripuecha. Atahpiticha encacsi tyámu xucuparhapca ca engacsi cacapequa úquaaca imaechani engancsi cuahpequarhenga.
We had heard about the intruders: Fearful warriors covered with iron that descended from the sky and killed all who dared oppose them.
Ma cuiripuhcu no cherheaspti. Yurhistsquiri ma enga naneni, hamemquia Eréndira arhicurhispti...
The only one that didn't fear them was a girl, barely a woman: Her name was Eréndira…
ERENDIRA IKIKUNARI is a beautifully shot action film that recreates the 16th century legend of Eréndira, a young Purépecha woman who became an icon of bravery during the destruction of indigenous Mexico by the Spanish conquistadors. When the Spanish arrive, they take advantage of the discord and conflict among the Mexican natives, reaping the benefits of a region divided. Eréndira, a young Purépecha woman on the verge of marriage, refuses to allow her land to be destroyed and stands up to the social conventions prohibiting women to participate in battle. In the face of the invasion, she steals and learns to ride a horse against the Spanish, winning the respect of her tribal leaders. Along her amazing journey, she becomes a symbol of strength and resistance within her culture. This feature length film was shot entirely in the original Purépecha language.
- Best Drama, 8th Indio Hispanic Film Festival, 2008
- Best Director, 8th Indio Hispanic Film Festival, 2008
- Jury Award, 10th Annual Latin American Film Festival, Marseilles, France 2008
- Best Make-Up, Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures, 2007
- Best Art Design, Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures, 2007
- Best Special Effects, Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures, 2007
- One of five films selected to represent Mexico at the Oscars
- One of five films selected to represent Mexico at the Goyas
- Recognition by the Secretary of Public Education for the Diffussion of the Original Languages, presented during UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day, Mexico, February 2007.
- >“José Tocavén Lavín” Award, Presented by the President of the Republic, Mexico, February 2007.
Faithful to the path outlined in his first film, Return to Aztlan (1991), Juan Mora Catlett proposes with, Erendira (2006), to narrate a picture that is highly stylized, austere and stripped of all that's superfluous, thus at the same time, serving the story and its characters. There is much of earthiness and antiquity in this attractive film, spoken in the Purépecha Indian language; and whose chromatic range is a precise reflection of the colors of the land and skin of its Indian inhabitants.. Again we are dealing with a work of consistent form. More than the illustrationof an Indigenous legend, it is an interesting lesson in politics, easily transferable to our own time and millieu.
Juan Arturo Brennan (critic, author)Price:
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