The Waters of Pastaza

Alves didn't actually want to make a film. After her studies in London, she went to an Achuar village of 80 people in the Ecuadorian Amazon for two months to work in the school there. In the mornings she taught the children, in the afternoons she learnt from them, did film workshops with them and finally started filming: the children fishing, boating, playing ball, cooking, playing with their mobile phones, ... The film manages without dialogue, observes benevolently, looks only at the children, without negating the world of the adults, without romanticising. Recommended for ages 6 and up.