The Nasa Indigenous community, folklore and resilience: An analysis through Marta Rodríguez’s La Sinfónica de los Andes

This research aims to explore the relationship between the film La Sinfónica de los Andes (2020), directed by legendary Colombian documentarist Marta Rodríguez, and the folkloric practices of the Nasa, an Indigenous community located in the south-western Andes mountains of Colombia. The film has a relevant presence of female reflection through Nasa women who work to protect their culture, defend their native language, vindicate the value of working on the land and resist the Colombian armed conflict that significantly affects this part of the country. This documentary summarizes the anthropological work that Rodríguez has carried out for more than 50 years in this region and her cinematic observation of folkloric practices in these populations. This qualitative research includes a film analysis of the documentary and an in-depth interview with Marta Rodriguez, where she expresses her main motivations, as well as her narrative and cultural concerns in making this film.