Warmi. Mujeres fértiles
2018 · 25m · España
Directed by Leonor Jiménez
Genres: documentary, essay film
Tones: contemplative, provocative
Indigenous women in Bolivia carry a triple burden — paid work, sole responsibility for care at home, and the harvests that feed their families — while defending territories and communities threatened by climate change and agroindustry.
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Everyone expects a polemic about land theft and labor — Jiménez refuses to give you the easy anger, instead letting the contradiction *live* in the frame, and that refusal to resolve is more dangerous than any manifesto.
A rigorous essay film that inherits from both the Latin American documentary tradition and the structural essay form, Warmi. Mujeres fértiles builds its argument through careful montage and voice, situating reproductive and agricultural labor within a lineage of feminist and indigenous cinema.
The decision to interweave personal testimony with harvest documentation — never separating the body from the land, the voice from the work — transforms what could be reportage into something that *feels* like resistance.