About this Event
Yuturi Warmi – ResistAnts immerses us in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where Indigenous Kichwa women, the “Bullet Ant Women”, rise to defend their territory from a gold rush consuming their future, forests, and rivers. Through the lens of embodied resistance, the film captures their courage, their laughter, and their dreams of autonomy rooted in ancestral knowledge and feminist solidarity. Born from a collaboration between filmmaker Margot Tjolle and the Serena community, the film is both about resistance and relationship.
🎥 Margot Tjolle is currently touring Europe to present her documentary debut about the inspiring struggle of Yuturi Warmi (ResistAnts), a women-led Indigenous guard confronting the violence of gold mining. Inspired by the bullet ant, they embody courage, weaving ancestral wisdom and decolonial feminism into a luminous act of resistance, care, and re-existence.
🌀 In Margot’s words:
“Yuturi Warmi – ResistAnts transcends documentary form. It is an act of shared storytelling, a bridge between worlds, amplifying Indigenous women’s voices as they reimagine coexistence and sovereignty in the face of extractivism. Their resistance is not only against destruction, but for life, connection, and the future of the Amazon.”
If you’re in the Netherlands, join our screening lecture to learn more about Indigenous-led resistance to extractivism and environmental justice and to engage in an inspiring discussion.
The post-screening discussion will be moderated by Fatima Delgado Medina, and will include a reflection praxis with Margot and students from the Minor programme International Entrepreneurship and Development, who have been working alongside women in the Amazon to develop ethnotourism business ventures as a community-led pathway to strengthen autonomy and livelihoods, and to enact resistance also through economic practices that support their families and community futures.
🐜 Yuturi Warmi – ResistAnts, a documentary by Margot Tjolle and Yuturi Warmi (Ecuador), 2025, 54 min, Spanish with English subtitles.
Alongside the screening, there will be an exhibition of jewellery made by the women. The exhibition is donation-based; funds collected will directly support Yuturi Warmi in their resistance.
Date & time: 4 February, 12:45 (followed by discussion)
Location: Hall A TU Delft – TPM Faculty, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
TU Delft Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, 5 Jaffalaan, Delft, Netherlands
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