Kashmir. When the gods are thirsty
Religion, water, borders... Muslims, Shijs, Hindus... Pakistan, India, Kashmir...
Kashmir. When the gods are thirsty. A documentary film about the roots of the conflict between India and Pakistan a warfare which has lasted for decades and which has even included threats of nuclear weapons.
Wayuu are the most numerous indigenous population from Colombia
and Venezuela. Sited in the desert peninsula of Guajira, they don´t need passport to walk between the both countries.
Piahis/Doctors, Palabreros/ Lawyer, Wayunaaiki/Spanish… The wayuu have known how to mix their own laws with technology, although they keep on distrusted of the white people.
Every week twelve planes arriving in Saint Louis , Senegal . All the passengers are illegal immigrants who have been repatriated to their country by the Spanish government. 11 million Senegalese have a common belief: to migrate to Europe . Even those who have tried and failed want to try again.
The biggest emerald mines in the world can be found in the heart of the Andes, in Muzo, Colombia. Men, women, elderly and children work in these mines without receiving any form of payment. They work hard under the illusion that one day they will be lucky enough to find an emerald that will change their life forever. Emeralds can be bought for thousands of euros on the North American market, but what is they “real” price?
Considered a magic creeper by many people of the Amazon, Ayahuasca is, for the west, a powerful drug. Indians, traders and the well known “chaman ayahuasquero” Pancho Montes reveal the misteries of a root-creeper that has the power to provoke strong hallucinating visions enabling contact with ones true inner self.
Abdul, a young fellow who lives in the Rift mountains, shows us the process to obtain hash in the north of Morocco . Him and his friends explain the difficult situation people live in this area, where the production of hash has become the only way to make a living. While they demonstrate how hash is obteined following the traditional process they tell us how the drug is introduced into Europe .
Bibiana delivers and rents washing machines for less than 1 dollar per hour. Uver is a “minutes seller”. Jairo is a illegal calibrator of buses…
These are just some of the names and faces that we can meet during a walk through any place in Bogota. They are informal vendors or just workers of that "submerged" economy of which survives more than half a country.