The Return
It’s spring in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Uyantza festival is underway with the community celebrating all that the forest has to offer. Meanwhile, news is breaking around the world that a novel virus is spreading and a state of emergency is declared across the country. As people test positive for COVID-19 in the community, some families decide to leave and head deeper into the jungle. Disconnected from school, friends, the internet, and work, one family learns to reconnect with life in the forest. The children begin to unlearn the national curriculum, and instead are taught Indigenous knowledge that mainstream schools normally pass over. As COVID-19 wreaks havoc around the planet, the family reconnect to their ancestral ways, but as news arrives that Ecuador’s lockdown will end soon, will the family choose to return?

similar movies
Lily: A Transgender Story
2020
genre:Documentary
KAPU: Sacred Hawaiian Burials
2022
genre:Documentary
Republic of Evil Ants
2021
genre:Documentary
Cry Rock
2010
genre:Documentary
Saving the Restaurant
2022
genre:Documentary
Edge of the Valley
2021
genre:Documentary
Hell of a Cruise
2022
genre:Documentary
Tears in the Amazon
2010
genre:Documentary
Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film
2017
genre:Documentary
The Last Forest
2021
genre:Documentary
Drama
Forests
2022
genre:Documentary
River of Gold
2016
genre:Documentary
Gideon: Searching for truth
2022
genre:Documentary
Generation C
2022
genre:Documentary
Hotels Lockdowns
2023
genre:Documentary
History
Drama
TV Movie
Contágio
2021
genre:Documentary
Surviving Columbus
1992
genre:Documentary
TV Movie
Iwianch, the Devil Deer
2021
genre:Documentary
Q'eros: The Shape of Survival
1979
genre:Documentary
Um Vírus em mim
2022
genre:Documentary