Akababuru

by Irati Dojura Landa Yagarí, Colombia, 2025, 12 min – In Competition, Regional Premiere

Deep in the Emberá jungle of Colombia lives Kari, a young girl whose smile has been stifled by fear. The discovery of an ancestral myth from her community awakens an unstoppable force within her: laughter, as an act of freedom and courage.

The short film stood out at the latest Berlinale for the originality of a story that blends fiction with surprising animation techniques.

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Irati Dojura Landa Yagarí studied Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication at the University of Antioquia. She has experience as a director, producer, and photographer. Her first fictional short film, Akababuru: Expresión de Asombro (2025), won the Colombian Film Development Fund in the category of short films about ethnic populations.

As an artistic director, she has received awards at the Equinoxio and Fulana Fest festivals. She directed a podcast series on the city’s indigenous communities titled “Ijarabú, I Remember You in My Dreams,” funded by the city of Medellín. In 2022, she participated as a workshop facilitator and photographer in the second season titled “Ijarabú, the countryside travels with me,” which won the Youth in Motion Fund from the Colombian Ministry of Culture.

In 2023, she received the Cultural Survival scholarship for Indigenous youth for women’s empowerment and leadership.

Trailer film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTIz2DEbzWs