• Ch’ul be, Sacred Path

  • Ch’ul be, Sacred Path

  • Ch’ul be, Sacred Path

  • Cosas de mi vida



Ch’ul be, Sacred Path

(Ch’ul be, senda sagrada)

Humberto Gómez Pérez
Mexico, 2023

Ch'ul be delves into the Tsotsil sacred path, exploring ancient collective commitments that sustain the cycle of life in the community. In San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas, everyone is responsible for the collective well-being, but few are chosen to follow the path of serving the gods. Ch’ul be is the path of Martha and Diego, and of Román and his son Tino. It is a journey from the everyday to the divine, from the individual to the collective, to ensure that knowledge is not lost and the cycle is not broken.

Terra Nostra Films
FILM DETAILS 
Cinematographer
  • Xun Sero
Language
  • Tsotsil [Mayan language]
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 70 mins
Source
  • Terra Nostra Films
Preceded By

Cosas de mi vida

Chick Strand, United States, 1976

For this portrait of her good friend, the musician Anselmo Aguascalientes, Chick Strand asked him to tell her his story in Spanish, translated it into English, and taught him how to speak the words. Layering language, sound, and images, Strand suggests the contradictions between what is said and what is seen.

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • English
  • Spanish
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 24 mins
source
  • BAMPFA
permission
  • Canyon Cinema

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