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Taitao Producciones, Picafilms

Yaktal was the ceremony of the Kaweskar when a whale grounded on a beach and brought abundant food and resources to the southern channels of Patagonia and this ancient canoe ethnic.

The 3.000-mile boat journey goes deep into the last unexplored corner of Chile, the Taitao Peninsula, facing one of the hardest oceans and the unpredictable weather. Twenty days on the wild, uncommunicated, contrasting the astonishing nature richness and one of the biggest mysteries, the largest whale stranding ever recorded.