Nomad Spirit (2025)
Each year, 26-year-old María Yessenia Herrera, best-known as “Chena”, joins the traveling diaspora of peasants who move around Colombia working as hand-picking coffee harvesters. Traveling and working constitute the basis of her autonomy. She keeps a notebook in her luggage where she writes and reflects about her past and the life that she faces as a woman and as a mother who must provide for a household full of problems and scarcity from afar. Despite her youth, her body is weakening, calling into question her own idea of freedom.
Director: Raúl Soto Rodríguez
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María Yessenia Herrera Benítez "Chena" as Self |
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Gloria Fanny Benítez as Self |
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Libardo Herrera as Self |
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Marlen Herrera Benítez as Self |
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Isabel Herrera Benítez as Self |
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José David Sea Herrera as Self |
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Deiner Herrera Benítez "Totoi" as Self |
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Yoiner Herrera Benítez as Self |
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Natalia Bermúdez Garcés as Self |
| Directing | Raúl Soto Rodríguez | Director |
| Production | Yira Plaza O'Byrne | Producer |
| Writing | Raúl Soto Rodríguez | Writer |
| Camera | David Horacio Montoya | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Isabel Otalvaro | Editor |
| Editing | Raúl Soto Rodríguez | Editor |
| Sound | Sebastián Alarcón Vélez | Sound |
| Sound | Juanma López | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Daniel Giraldo | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Alejandro Bernal | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Sara Arredondo | Graphic Designer |
| Production | David Horacio Montoya | Co-Producer |
| Production | Raúl Soto Rodríguez | Co-Producer |