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Iniciación Kawesqar de Tomás Tonko Huenucoy (2025)
Directed by Alián Gedda, Pedro Micelli
Documentary · 56m
Seven Kawésqar still live in Puerto Edén. They are the last descendants of a nomadic people who inhabited the southern sea of Chile. Juan Carlos Tonko, together with his mother Gabriela, his wife Carolina, and three of his children, embarks on a voyage to the lands of his childhood to repeat the initiation rite as a hunter for Tomás, his youngest son, which will guide him into adulthood and also to Kawésqar survival in the archipelagos.
Cast
Roberto Poblete
Narrator (voice)
G
Gabriela Paterito
Self
R
Raúl Edén Ulloa
Self
F
Francisco Arroyo
Self
J
Juan Carlos Tonko
Self
C
Carolina Huenucoy
Self
J
Juan Carlos Tonko Huenucoy
Self
F
Francisco Tomás Tonko Huenucoy
Self
G
Gabriela Tonko Huenucoy
Self
J
Juan Vilo
Self
R
Rodrigo Maldonado
Self
P
Pedro Vargas
Self
Crew
- Director
- Alián Gedda, Pedro Micelli
- Writer
- Francisco Gedda
- Director of Photography
- Pedro Micelli, Manuel Vlastelica
- Original Music Composer
- José Miguel Tobar, Miguel Miranda
- Editor
- Camilo Campi
- Producer
- Francisco Gedda, Juan Carlos Tonko, Raúl González
Details
- Release date
- 2025-11-07
- Runtime
- 56m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- ES
- Spoken languages
- Spanish
- Countries
- Chile
- Production
- Sur Imagen, Canal 13, Consejo Nacional de Televisión
- Budget
- $40,000