The Song of the Butterflies (Spanish: El canto de las mariposas) is a 2020 Peruvian documentary film written, co-produced and directed by Núria Frigola Torrent in her directorial debut.
[1][2] It follows Rember Yahuarcani, an indigenous plastic artist from the Witoto people, who will seek to tell the dark past that her community faced as a result of the rubber boom in Peru.
[3] Rember Yahuarcani, is an indigenous plastic artist from the Witoto people, returns to her homeland after passing through Lima in search of inspiration, remembering the stories that her grandmother Martha López told her before she died.
Being one of the survivors of the "rubber massacre", she tells some dark passages in the history of her people in which they were enslaved, decimated and displaced to other places.
Rember will emphasize the importance that those events and experiences of his ancestors cannot be forgotten and that art has the possibility of keeping his culture alive.