La femme étrangère (The Woman from Elsewhere)

Drama, video, colour, 25 mins., 1988, Québec, Canada, OFV with English subtitles

Helena Valero was travelling with her parents, Brazilian settlers who were going to settle along a tributary of the Amazon, when she was kidnapped by a band of Yanomami. She was 12 when it happened, and 36 when she finally regained her freedom. Considered a foreigner by her kidnappers throughout her capitivity, her family called her an Indian when she finally returned to live among them with her three children. Condemned to alienation all her life, Helena returned to live in the forest of the Upper Orinoco, halfway between a Native village and an White one.

Featuring : Helena Valero

Director : Robert Morin,
Lorraine Dufour

Producer : Lorraine Dufour
Production : Coop Vidéo de Montréal
Distributor : Vidéographe

1990

Prix spécial du jury
Festival de Nantes (France)

Festivals and Events

2008 - L'Hybride – salle de diffusion alternative (Lille, France)
2007 - Exposition Acquérir pour grandir au Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Canada)
2006 - Festival international du documentaire de Marseille - Rétrospective (France)
1996 - Festival de Blois (France)
1991-92 - Galerie Nationale du Canada - Rétrospective (Canada)
1990 - Galerie A Space - Rétrospective (Toronto, Canada)
1990 - Cinémathèque québécoise (Montréal, Canada)
1989 - Filmer à tout prix (Bruxelles, Belgique)
1989 - Deluding Documentary (Vancouver, Canada)
1989 - Glenbow Museum Theatre (Calgary, Canada)
1989 - La Quinzaine de la vidéo (Montréal, Canada)
1989 - Film and Video from the Heart of the Heart of the Regions (Canada)
1989 - Manifestation internationale de vidéo et de télévision de Montbéliard (France)