Relentless Memory review – a vital oral history of the plight of the Mapuche people

In Paula Rodríguez’s impressionistic documentary, an academic’s South American travelogue brings the painful story of a proud Indigenous society to life Between 1862 and 1885, the Mapuche Indigenous people rose up to defend their homeland against invading outsiders. For these acts of bravery, they were deported, tortured and massacred at the hands of the Chilean and Argentinian military. These painful chapters of history, once suppressed and buried, are seen in a new light in Paula Rodríguez’s m