Pülö
bloodstream of the kirike
Pülö means blood and oil in Okrika; a Niger Delta community in Nigeria. The film charts an environmental tragedy on the island, which began as a fishing village around the 9th century, then became a slave trading port until the abolishment in the 1830s. The documentary, through a recollection of clips spanning over thirty years, highlights the various forms of pollution in the area and its effects on society’s most vulnerable people. It follows the everyday lives of women from the community to provide context on their sacred relationship with water and the risk it poses when they lose their most important resource.
A film by Christina Ifubaraboye
Produced by IMBUU, a narrative collective for the Other, in coproduction with ETHNOS. Funded by Blue Ice Hot Docs Fund, Storyboard Collective, DOCAfrica
whanganui
the river spirit
“Ko au te awa. Ko te awa ko au”: I am the river, the river is me. This is how the Maori people living along the Whanganui tell of their relationship with this sacred river, the third in length of all New Zealand. In March 2017, with a law approved by Parliament, the Whanganui has become the first river in the world to obtain a legal identity, to become a subject of law in all respects. For this reason it is now the planetary symbol of the battle for the legal rights of all natural elements and of Mother Earth.
