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QUINUERA is an intimate family portrait that returns to the roots of an unexplored land transformed by quinoa. A call for dialogue with the land, with a community and with nature itself.

Five cool Native stories about the heavens, creation and the trickster Raven, by five talented Alaskan storytellers, with gorgeous backdrop footage of Alaska.

It is an existential film about Earth and unlike how it is represented as young woman by Dovzhenko, but as old one, who has five adult children. This one family exemplifies today's life in Ukraine of oligarchic feudalism that caused the change of survival strategies. Instead of resting in the shade of white acacias the old man Ivan and his wife Stepanyda struggle to survive the crisis. When their elder son died, they learn how to live further. Film develops the topic of 'life and death', as through the prism of personal tragedy, but also in a social sense of Ukrainian village decline. If today the EU countries are expressing 'Deep concern', at the Stalinist era of Terror-Famine the world preferred to keep silence.

While Andrea unfolds a labyrinth in her new home's land, Fran confirms that his efforts for recovering old people's knowledge are productive, and Flo plants a yew surrounded by friends. Beside them, we will ask ourselves if the imposed price of taking the choice to live in a village is not too high.