God is a Woman

This poignant and multi-layered documentary follows the journey of Panama’s Indigenous Kuna community as they recover a long-lost film made about them in the 1970s. What begins as a quest to retrieve missing footage unfolds into a powerful meditation on cultural memory, representation, and the right of Indigenous peoples to reclaim their own image.

In 1975, French Oscar-winning filmmaker Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau travelled to Panama to document the Kuna, where women are revered as sacred. Decades later, the film had become a legend — spoken of, but never seen. When director Andrés Peyrot uncovers the forgotten reels and returns them to the community, God Is a Woman becomes not only a documentary, but a moving reunion between a people and their own recorded history.

The film explores themes of cultural representation, memory, and the relationship between ethnographic filmmaking and the communities being documented.

Only available in the UK and with limited streams