Iniciación Kawesqar de Tomás Tonko Huenucoy
2025 · 56m
Documentary
Directed by
Alián Gedda
,
Pedro Micelli
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Iniciación Kawesqar de Tomás Tonko Huenucoy
Overview
Seven Kawésqar still live in Puerto Edén. They are the last descendants of a nomadic people who inhabited the southern sea of Chile. Juan Carlos Tonko, together with his mother Gabriela, his wife Carolina, and three of his children, embarks on a voyage to the lands of his childhood to repeat the initiation rite as a hunter for Tomás, his youngest son, which will guide him into adulthood and also to Kawésqar survival in the archipelagos.
Director and cast
- Alián Gedda Director
- Pedro Micelli Director
- Roberto Poblete as Narrator (voice)
- Gabriela Paterito as Self
- Raúl Edén Ulloa as Self
- Francisco Arroyo as Self
- Juan Carlos Tonko as Self
- Carolina Huenucoy as Self
- Juan Carlos Tonko Huenucoy as Self
- Francisco Tomás Tonko Huenucoy as Self
- Gabriela Tonko Huenucoy as Self
- Juan Vilo as Self
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