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Prairie flowers

After Silvia’s femicide, Yecenia, who is her cousin, and one of the ñomndaa weavers from the Prairie of Flowers, creates a ritual and poetic mourning alongside other weaving women. Through this ritual, threads, dreams and their craft are collectively woven together as an act of healing and resilience.

  • Mariana X. Rivera
    Director
  • Mariana Xochiquétzal Rivera
    Writer
  • Josué Vergara
    Producer
  • Yecenia López
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Flores de la llanura
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    June 30, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    450,000 MXN
  • Country of Origin:
    Mexico
  • Country of Filming:
    Mexico
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de la Ciudad de México
    Mexico
    Mexico
    Mexican
    Best short documentary
  • Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia
    Morelia
    Mexico
    Mexican
  • Cairo International Film Festival
    Cairo
    Egypt
    November 29, 2021
    international
    Short film competition
  • Zanate Festival de cine documental mexicano
    Colima
    Mexico
    November 25, 2021
    Best short documentary
  • 3ª Muestra Internacional de Cine del Istmo
    México
    Mexico
    Premio Teófila Palafox, mejor película
Director Biography - Mariana X. Rivera

PhD in Anthropologic Sciences; MA in Visual Anthropology; Academic Researcher at the Ethnology and Social Anthropology Division from the National Institute of Anthropology and History.
She is a co-founder of the production company Urdimbre Audiovisual, where she works as a film director and photographer. She has directed documentaries and video clips, and has published articles regarding documentary and ethnographic film, visual anthropology, weaving, memory and transmedia narratives. She has taught courses on visual anthropology and has taken part in workshops for the development of film projects. She has been a programmer from the Ethnographic Film Forum, and a curator of textile exhibits.

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Director Statement

This film comes about through a collective interest to portray the violence that many Ñomndaa weaving women from Guerrero suffer from. It is a public complaint for Silvia’s femicide. And it is built from both the poetry of their native tongue, and the metaphors weaving creates around life and death. The sounding of the craft of weaving, and the dreamlike images that erase the border between documentary and fiction bring about a disturbing reality which is at the same time touchingly beautiful.