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A Chile-Venezuela

co-production

The myth of María Lionza, a deity of the Venezuelan jungle, merges with the experience of a migrant filmmaker yearning for her lost Goddess. Over two decades of filming, the movie reveals the facets of the fracture of the iconic Goddess statue amid a Caracas marked by acute political and social division.

Different eras come together to speak of a rupture that is not just that of a statue. It is the story of Venezuela and every Venezuelan who feels divided in  a war that never belonged to them. It is also the wound of those who live in the no place of a migrant life.

Diosa Quebrada, The Broken Goddess, Maria Lionza, XimenaFilms

For years, guided by intuition and by the need to give voice to María Lionza, the Goddess of Venezuela, I began to document the debacle of her iconic statue. The incipient cracks that afflicted her, her rupture, her double becoming.


On the one hand, the Broken Goddess was sheltered at the Central University of Venezuela. On the other, the Mayor's Office of Caracas installed a replica in the same place that the original piece was.


After comings and goings, I concluded that telling her story was the excuse to understand my own wound, the rupture that inhabiting the non-place of a migrant life implies.


María Lionza gave me the strength to tell this story that is not only mine, it is also the story of my country and of every Venezuelan who feels divided, in the middle of a war that never belonged to her.

Deep in Venezuela lives the goddess María Lionza, capable of giving light and strength to whom ask for it. 


​​ "I promised to do this film to María Lionza if she gave me the strength every time I was in fear. Through an intimate dialogue between the deity and her devotees, this documentary is a personal offering and a way to give some sense to the statue's fracture in 2004, at a time of Venezuela's political upheaval. Now 19 years later, I look for putting this in perspective, this powerful mother figure of the people's religiosity of Venezuela."

Ximena Pereira

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The Team

La Diosa Quebrada, The Broken Goddess, XimenaFilms, Maria Lionza, Caracas, Venezuela

Chiledoc

In 2014, the project received advisory from Wendy Levy, through the Sundance program for documentary film from Chiledoc.

Ximena Pereira, Wendy Levy, La Diosa Quebrada, The Broken Goddess, Sundance, Chiledoc, XimenaFilms

Femcine

“The Broken Goddess” wins Best Project 2016 at the DocLab Observatory at Femcine

Labex 5

The project participates in the Labex 5 laboratory in 2015

XimenaFilms, La Diosa Quebrada, The Broken Goddess, Maria Lionza, Ximena Pereira, Jackson Elizondo, Filmación, Making Off, Shooting, Tras cámaras, Carretera, Caracas, Venezuela

Conecta

In 2018 "The Broken Goddess" participates in the Connect Regions Workshop with Maite Alberdi

Maite Alberdi, Daniela Cancino, Ximena Pereira, Flor Rubina, Conecta Regiones, La Diosa Quebrada, The Broken Goddess, XimenaFilms

Docmontevideo

In 2018 the project receives advisory from Javier Corcuera and is presented to programmers of international documentary festivals in Docmontevideo Uruguay.

Ximena Pereira, Raúl Niño Zambrano, Docmontevideo, XimenaFilms, La Diosa Quebrada, The Broken Goddess

Festivales

27th Malaga Film Festival

Official Selection

Spain - March 2024

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25th Hot Docs

Official Selection

Canada- April/May 2024

20 Venezuelan Film Festival

🏆 Best editing

      Venezuela - June 2024

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17th Istambul 

Documentary Days

Official Selection

Türkiye- June 2024

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2nd Habitar el Cine

Official Selection

Venezuela - July 2024

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CCS DOC

Opening film

Venezuela - July 2024

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12 FIDBA

🏆 SIGNIS Award

in shortfilm

Argentina - October 2024

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3 Motriz Planaltina

Festival

Official Selection

Brazil - October 2024

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20th Rengo International Film Festival

Official Selection

Chile - November 2024

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16th Seattle Latino

Film Festival

Official Selection

USA - October 2024

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6 El Grito

Fantastic Film Festival

Official Selection

Venezuela - October  2024

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XIV Encuentro para

Cinéfagos

🏆 Best Venezuelan film

🏆 Best Production

   Venezuela - September 2024

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4th Folkestone

Documentary Festival

Official Selection

UK - October 2024

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5 Cortos en Grande

Festival

Showcase Focus Venezuela

Chile - November 2024

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14 Entre largos y

cortos Festival

Official Selection

Venezuela - September 2024

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CUMBE Film

Festival 

🏆 Special Mention

Venezuela - October 2024

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19th Documentary Film Festival IFF Won Together

Official Selection

Rusia - November 2024

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XimenaFilms
Creaciones Animadas
Salvaje Films
CNAC Centro Nacional Autónomo de de Cinematografía

Technical Specs

Project Title  La Diosa Quebrada
English Title: The Broken Goddess

Country of production: Chile/Venezuela
Year of production: March 2024

Length: 21 minute
Genre: Art, politics and society, migration, women's cinema, autobiography.

Final format: Full HD
Shooting format: MDV-HD
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Color: color
Sound: 5.1
Locations: Caracas, Venezuela.  Montaña de Sorte, Venezuela. Santiago, Chile
Original language: Spanish
Subtitles: English

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