Ways to Traverse a Territory

From EPF Media

Directed by Gabriela Dominguez Ruvalcaba

72 minutes / Color
Spanish / English subtitles
Release: 2025
Copyright: 2024

A family of Indigenous Tsotsil women herds sheep on a green mountain slope in southern Mexico. The film observes them shearing and dyeing the wool and walking with the animals through the mountains. Filmmaker Gabriela Dominguez Ruvalcaba converses with the women—sometimes literally. The mime-style scenes, in which the women perform their daily activities, and the poetic eye for details, such as tufts of wool swirling like snow through the air, all contribute to a film that explores the ways humankind can shape its environment and the marks it leaves behind.

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Main credits

Domínguez Ruvalcaba, Gabriela (film director)
Domínguez Ruvalcaba, Gabriela (screenwriter)
Quintana Enciso, Pía (film producer)

Other credits

Cinematography, Natali Montell; editing, Dalia Huerta Cano, Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba; music, Arcadio Martínez Lanz.


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Keywords
Indigenous Culture,Feminism,Mexico,Latin American Studies,Latina Community,Tsotsil; "Ways to Traverse a Territory"; EPF Media; "Formas de Atravesar un Territorio";
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Credits

Gabriela Dominguez Ruvalcaba

Selected Accolades

  • Best of Fests Selection - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) – Netherlands
    Best Feature Film Award – Portland EcoFilm Festival – United States
    Official Selection – Latin American Studies Association Film Festival
    National Autonomous University of Mexico Int’l Film Festival (FICUNAM) – Mexico
    Locarno Film Festival – Switzerland
    Morelia International Film Festival (FICM)