The Memory of Butterflies

La memoria de las mariposas

Drawing from the shadows of the colonial rubber trade, this evocative film uncovers the lost stories of two Indigenous men taken to London to be ‘civilised’.

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Credits

  • Director-screenwriter

    Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski

  • Peru-Portugal 2025. 77min

  • Courtesy of

    Miti Films

  • Languages

    Spanish, Murui Huitoto

    With English subtitles

Introduction

With little known of Omarino and Aredomi’s fate, Peruvian filmmaker Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski embarks on a luminous inquiry, layering her own history alongside Amazonian archives and historical photographs in order to deconstruct colonial narratives. Reflecting on power, memory and speculative research, the film becomes an urgent ritual of remembrance and artistic resistance, and an invitation to reimagine history by speaking with voices long silenced. The result is a powerful invocation that collapses time, bridging the living and the dead.

Hyun Jin Cho

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