COUNTRY
Chile
PRODUCTION
Mahatua Producciones
YEAR2025
RUN TIME72 min
WRITING Leonardo Pakarati Quiroz
CINEMATOGRAPHY Guillermo Bravo
MUSIC
Cristian Freund
EDITION Diego Macho
CAST Brigid Mulloy, Thor Heyerdahl Jr, Enrique Baeza, Marta Hotu, Enerike Carrasco, Leonardo Pakarati
DISTRIBUTION Mahatua Producciones
INTERNATIONAL SALES Mahatua Producciones
CONTACT paula.rossetti@gmail.com
SYNOPSIS The children reflect on an event from 1955: the expedition of Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl to Rapa Nui, which drew worldwide attention. In a context of military control and fractured identity, Rapa Nui man Lázaro Hotu challenges the belief that his people had lost their ancestral knowledge and leads the raising of the first moai in the modern era. This act becomes a moment of collective encounter. Through inherited memory, the film reflects on dignity, resistance and transmission.
Leonardo Pakarati Quiroz
Independent filmmaker and producer of Rapa Nui origin, his career spans documentary cinema, fiction and television. He is the founder of the first local television channel, from which he promoted content created in and for Rapa Nui. His work is marked by a deep, inward-looking perspective, attentive to historical and contemporary processes, exploring memory, identity and territory while placing local narratives in dialogue with other realities and cultural contexts.
FILMOGRAPHY
Tao'a (documentary, 2025),
Re'o rapa nui (documentary 2018),
Te Kuhane o te tupuna (documentary, 2015)
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