Mama Celia

An intimate portrait of a strong, contradictory and charismatic female figure between worlds. Celia Shiguango lives independently as a woman, quichua, healer and midwife in the rainforest of Ecuador, often running into her limits in a world, in which a narrow village world with few perspectives, social tensions and discrepancies between traditionalism and modern life open up in the midst of the green woods. The documentary was created in a close relationship of trust and is strongly based on Celia’s own ideas of a filmic self-portrayal.