- event type:Film
- date:29 May 2026 - 07 Jun 2026
- city/area:Berlin
- venue:virtualWOMEX
- country:Germany
- event posted by:Piranha Arts
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Directed by Siboné Oroza and Antti Nordin
Duration 86’ | Spanish/Quechua with English subtitles
The film, When I’m on Stage, I Rule: Cholita Futurism in Cochabamba, Bolivia, explores how musical performance can serve as a tool for women's individual and collective empowerment against a backdrop of colonial history, Indigenous statehood, and persisting patriarchal systems. It spotlights cholita song and dance groups such as the pioneering Las Conquistadoras, who stormed the Bolivian popular music scene at the turn of the millennium and are popular to this day.
Siboné Oroza is a music researcher whose work is currently centred on women’s musical performance as a site of political joy and anti-colonial future-making. Oroza is also a performer in a tango duo with guitarist Antti Nordin.
Antti Nordin is a sculptor who primarily works with rusted steel, Skåne diabase, and bronze, exploring the intersection of mass and empty space as a medium for visual percussion and enduring spatial statements.
Produced by Antti Nordin Co-produced by Siboné Oroza
Director of photography Antti Nordin
Sound Antti Nordin
Editors Antti Nordin/Siboné Oroza
Music by Las Conquistadoras, Las Florecitas de Mizque, Las Traicioneras del Amor, Erlinda Cruz y sus Consentidas