The above still belongs to the film Mujeres Espíritu (2019), whose director, Francisco Huichaqueo, we interview in this edition. Mujeres Espíritu “features five women united by spirituality and poetry. They do not know each other but declamatory force unites them. The Stotsil, Mapuzungun, Kechua and Spanish languages shape a semantic field that transcends words, enriching the sonority of each mother tongue, inviting viewers the spiritual space of each woman and her territory,” writes Luis Gallardo for the Latin American Coordinating Committee for Indigenous Peoples’ Cinema and Communication (CLACPI).

Roxana Miranda Rupailaf (1982, Osorno, Chile) is a poet, Master in contemporary Hispanic American literature from the Universidad Austral, and professor of Spanish language and communication at the Universidad de Los Lagos. She has published several books of poetry, including Seducción de los venenos (2008), Shumpall (2011), Trewa Ko (2017) and Zewpe Mapu (2021). Her works explore themes related to the feminine, orality, and Mapuche culture. In September (2023), Roxana received the Victor Jara Regional Art and Culture Award granted by the University of Los Lagos and the Victor Jara Foundation to recognize and celebrate the artists and culture of the Los Lagos Region and to preserve the name of Victor Jara in the memory of old and new generations.