Our Demand
(Senda india)
Daniela Seggiaro / Argentina / 2023 / 80 min
Festival des 3 Continents
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Spanish and Wichí with English subtitles
With Victorino Lorenzo, Pedro Tolaba, Juan Méndez (Lacuijèn), Margarita Filippini, Comunidad Misión Tolaba
In 1991, the young Wichí man Miguel Ángel Lorenzo picked up a Hi8 video camera and, with humor and sensitivity, began documenting life in his community. Together with his neighbors, he filmed journeys through the forest, visits to nearby homes, school events, archaeological explorations, and even the arrival of a judge — all part of the evidence for a legal case the Wichí had been pursuing since 1986.
Directed by Daniela Seggiaro, Our Demand is constructed from these images, episodes, and everyday moments, revealing how Indigenous protagonists communicate to the white world the significance of the forest, their language, and communal life — essential pillars of their ongoing struggle for territory and recognition.
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About the Director
Her second feature, Husek (Vista Sur Films – Maravillacine), was shot in Salta at the end of 2019 and had its world premiere in the international competition at FID Marseille 2021, where it received the Jury Award. The film’s national premiere took place at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, followed by screenings at renowned festivals such as Rencontres Toulouse, Ischia Film Festival, BioBioCine, and First Look Film Festival (NYC), among others.
Her most recent project, Our Demand (Maravillacine), continues to explore themes central to her work — the complex encounters and misunderstandings between Indigenous and Western or Creole worlds — as a space to reflect on contemporary identities and cultural coexistence.
Press
“Our Demand is much more than what lies on the surface. In its final third, Seggiaro’s documentary takes on a more openly political tone as it shows the on-site inspections by the judge and those involved in the trial. There, mistreatment and disdain intertwine with the relentless attempts of some to tip the scales, and the steadfast resilience of those who fight for what they believe is rightfully theirs.” – Ezequiel Boetti, Otros Cines
“More than a retrospective exercise, Our Demand stands as a bridge between past and present. By connecting archival footage with the territory, Seggiaro turns these films into a space for dialogue that reaches both indigenous communities and urban audiences.” – Juan Pablo Russo, Escribiendo Cine
Notes on the Film
“Sometimes our work consists of making films, and sometimes also bridges, connections that allow us to carry messages between territories. The images proposed by Our Demand were filmed in 1991 by the Wichí community from Mosconi. The cameraman Miguel Angel Lorenzo and representatives of the community entrusted us with the material to make this film. We carried it out digitally, with INCAA adding provincial and foreign contributions. From the editing, the sound, and the music, we proposed to go through that mountain, losing our own footprints in it, to become part of that story-other as the only way to capture what happens to us in the face of dispossession and injustice. Understanding a huge conflict from the inside, almost touching it, was what challenged us about the material, filmed with sensitivity but also as evidence of land ownership, filmed for a judge, for the white world and its rules, to talk to us about land, language, history, the urgency of indigenous claims. To invite us to unite in the face of other claims.”
– Daniela Seggiaro, Director