Two sisters. One dying language. The end of a world at the bottom of the Earth.
In the southernmost place in the world live the Yámanas, who survived and developed in one of the most inhospitable climates in the world. Today on the brink of extinction, its oldest survivors Úrsula and Cristina Calderón, invite us on a journey through its history, its myths, its language and its landscape. They are the last Footprint.
Direction
Castillo lets silence and landscape speak as loudly as words
Production
Cape Horn itself becomes a character—hostile, magnificent, witness
Director
Paola Castillo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cristina Calderón became the last native Yaghan speaker when Úrsula died in 2005; she herself passed in 2022, rendering the language extinct.
The Yaghan were once considered 'the world's most southerly people'—Charles Darwin encountered them on the Beagle voyage and dismissed them as primitive, a colonial judgment that enabled their displacement.
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