Awka Liwen

Is a 2010 Argentine documentary written and narrated by journalist and author Osvaldo Bayer. The film's title means "rebel dawn" in the Mapuche language. It exposes the genocide and dispossession of Argentina's Indigenous peoples, focusing on how the so-called "Conquest of the Desert" was not a civilizing campaign but a systematic plan to seize their lands. Through archival footage, testimonies from historians such as Felipe Pigna and Norberto Galasso, and Bayer's own narration, the documentary traces a historical line from colonization to the present, also addressing structural racism and land concentration in the hands of a few

Awka Liwen is a feature film from 2010, directed by Kristina Hillie & Mariano Aiello and produced by Macanudo Films. MoltiStudio, a sound studio in Buenos Aires led by Juan Manuel Molteni, handled sound design, sound direction, post-production and mixing.