Fifty years after the bank seized the documentary, the indigenous people of Kuna from Panama regained its story.
The promise of a French filmmaker to an indigenous community in Panama is broken when his documentary disappears. People opened their lives to be documented in 1975, but they never knew that the production had dried and that the bank seized the movie reels.
For half a century, the community sought lost recordings because his story became a legend crossed from the elders to younger generations. Decades later, decaying the reel were discovered at the Panaman Ministry of Culture and a hidden copy of the film Resrurfaces in Paris. While the elders recount the film process, the new generation is growing to regain its cultural narrative.
The lost film by Panama is the documentary film Andres Peyrot.
