The way home 阿查依蘭的呼喚
TAIWAN|2021|DOCUMENTARY|78 mins
DIRECTOR: Elaine Wei 魏郁蓁
Synopsis
Dremedrema is the tribal chief heir of her tribe. Being that she is the eldest, she therefore, must accept her inheritance of the position and status according to tradition. Though her mother and children hope that she disavows the obligation.
Even Dremedrema herself had run away from her tribe once. There are many other families’ members who have their eyes on the position. But her ancestral spirits would not give up on her. She is a tribal chief who doesn’t speak the native tongue.
At the same time she is a devoted single mother of three. She is a chief without her traditional tribal family house, unable to live within the tribe.
She misses home. But despite ten years of effort, it is a home that she cannot easily return to. A female tribal chief’s arduous journey to heedthe call of her ancestral roots.
中文大綱
廖莉華(族名日日滿)是排灣族大後部落的女頭目,世襲的頭目制度,讓她在出生那刻起就命定成為部落靈魂人物。從小在平地讀書也不會說母語的她,卻因父親意外過世,繼承頭目的壓力排山倒海而來。廖莉華雖不熟悉自身文化,仍依循排灣族傳統,不得不和過去的自己告別,繼承下頭目的責任。
廖莉華也是一位單親媽媽,每日為三餐拼搏,還得用力撐起族人的期望,奔走在族人的各大婚喪節慶裡,咬緊牙關也要展現身為頭目的最大關懷。廖莉華的母親與小孩都希望她放棄這個身份,而她也曾經逃離部落,但在祖靈殷切的呼喚下,她終究回鄉了。繁複的部落傳統無完整文字記載,從沒有人告訴她該怎麼做,廖莉華更沒想過自己要面對的,會是一整個世代的文化失根危機。
長期拍攝原住民文化題材的魏郁蓁導演,在來義鄉文樂部落的豐年祭上認識了廖莉華,後來聽說了她的人生故事,並決定用鏡頭紀錄下來。沒想到在拍攝過程衝突事件不斷,不僅廖莉華的繼承身分遭到部分族人質疑,拍攝時還曾遭人報警關切。導演魏郁蓁費時七年,完成台灣首部以女頭目為拍攝對象的紀錄片《阿查依蘭的呼喚》,將漸漸失落的文化,透過影像一點一滴被尋回!
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