The word “cantadora” comes from traditional Colombian music influenced by African roots and refers to the women who compose and sing their songs while doing their daily chores. This film is a portrait of rural life in Colombia’s Caribbean and Pacific regions, told through the words and songs of the resilient Afro-Colombian singers who farm there. Through intimate interviews and the evocative chants of the bullerengue (cumbia-based style traditionally sung exclusively by Colombian women) and currulao, we learn of their everyday experiences of hardship and survival. They speak emotionally of their memories of violence at the hands of paramilitaries and the power of song to build intergenerational strength and give voice to dignity and creativity. Weaving songs, interviews, and archival footage, “Cantadoras” is a musical journey through ancestral resistance to violence experienced in white-owned mines, in civil war that heavily affected rural communities, and in the challenges of today’s conditions.