Documentary “Kueka, Ancestral Memory” will premiere on April 17

Published at: 24/02/2025 08:06 AM

Through the social network Instagram, the Minister of Popular Power for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, reported that the Documentary “Kueka, Ancestral Memory” by director María de los Ángeles Peña will be released on April 17, on the 5th anniversary of the repatriation.

“It narrates the struggle and resistance of the Pemón people to recover their sacred grandmother, incarnated in a red jasper rock weighing more than 25 tons, this is the second audiovisual production of the Great Mission Viva Venezuela mi Patria Querida and will hit movie theaters on April 17,” said Villegas.

He also recalled that this battle of the Pemón people lasted three generations and “22 years finally achieved the repatriation of this cultural heritage from Germany to their home in Mapaurí, in the Gran Sabana, Bolivar State, Venezuela”.

In this regard, he specified that the “film explores how the anger and sadness of stone grandparents are reflected in climate change, the decline of fish and riverbeds”.

“The kidnapping of Kueka Pachi left a trauma and a reflection on its impact on their lives and on the planet, and the challenges faced by the community in the face of cultural changes. An unmissable documentary that invites us to value our roots and culture,” he said.

Kueka is a red jasper stone weighing approximately 20 tons, part of the tradition and ancestral memory of the Pemón people of Venezuela, extracted from its place of origin in 1998 without the consultation of the Mapaurí community by the plastic creator Wolfang Von Schwarzenfeld to form part of his sculptural installation called Global Stone in the Tiergarten metropolitan park, in Berlin (Germany).

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