LIFFY 2023| El deseo de Dios. Hèlene Boistard and Jean-David Delépine

El deseo de Dios. Hèlene Boistard and Jean-David Delépine, Chile.2021. ( 90 min.) With the participation of the Baile San Pedro de la caleta El Membrillo, Valparaíso, Chile. Original music by Carlos Fernando Ramírez Báez. Q&A with filmmakers Hèlene Boistard and Jean-David Delépine
SUMMARY
In the “Caleta El Membrillo“, a fishermen’s creek some hundred meters from the Valparaíso container port, gather on each Saturday the dancers of the ”Baile gitano de San Pedro”. They meet amongst the back and forth of the fishermen, to rehearse their dance in honor of the Virgin Mary. Some parades punctuate the year, on the occasion of religious feasts. Then, the dancers in their colorful attire, express through their energy the strength of a popular devotion that was recognized
as an intangible cultural heritage by the UNESCO.

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