ETERNAL ASHES tells the story of a mother, Ana and her daughter, Elena. Although they are separated, in the space and time they remain united forever. The people and the millenarian culture of Yanomami are the framework of this story about the unbreakable bonds of filiations. After an accident in the furious flow of the mythical Orinoco River, in the fifties, Ana was considered dead. Elena as an adult and facing the negligible possibility that her mother is alive decides to leave to the Amazon to search her. ETERNAL ASHES is a story of filiations, poetry, wisdom and especially of humanity.
Cinematography
The Orinoco River shot like a living, breathing deity.
Direction
Cadenas lets silences do the screaming.
Director
Margarita Cadenas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cadenas spent years embedded with Yanomami communities; the film's non-professional actors include actual tribal leaders speaking untranslated dialogue.
Patricia Velásquez (Ana) learned to hold her breath for four minutes to film the underwater sequences without cuts—she later called it 'method acting for mermaids.'
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