Children of the Huni Kui people living in Rio Humaita Kaxinawá Indigenous Land, in the State of Acre, show what life is like in the village: jokes, fishing, party, stories… The nine short videos are part of the Weaving Knowledge project sponsored by Petrobras Cultural Program.
Director: Mari Corrêa
Versions: Portuguese and Spanish
AUDIOVISUAL TRAINING OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN
Instituto Catitu proposes to capacitate indigenous women of the Brazilian Amazon in the use of contemporary cultural production tools like video and photography, to bring attention to the female knowledges and the strengthening of their roles. The project is new initiative in Brazil as a whole that answers to a demand of indigenous women for a creative form of expressing their ideas and knowledges.
Directors: Mari Corrêa and Raquel Diniz
Duration: 17 minutes
Versions: Portuguese and English
In 1964, Ikpeng Indians have their first contact with white men in a region close to the Xingu area, in Mato Grosso State. The film recounts this meeting, or what remains of it: the memories, exile, the abandoned land, the desire and struggle for return.
Directors: Mari Corrêa and Karané Ikpeng
Duration: 83 minutes
Versions: Portuguese, English, Spanish and French
NEWS FROM THE WILD ONES – DOCUMENTARY PROJECT OF NILSON TUWE
Some indigenous peoples live voluntarily isolated at the frontier between Brazil and Peru, in the State of Acre, Brazil. The advances of logging exploitation, mining, petroleum prospecting and drug trafficking are obliging them to relocate themselves to Brazil to seek refuge. “News from the Wild Ones” is a documentary film project of indigenous filmmaker Nilson Tuwe, who lives in the Kaxinawa Indigenous Land of Humaita River, where there is the presence of one of these isolated groups. His sensible approach has been able to problematize and transmit the indigenous view on their “wild kin.”
THE STORY OF THE AGOUTI AND THE MONKEY
The film is based on a traditional story of the Kawaiweté people. This short film was made from the material shot during the second edition of the Training Workshops of Indigenous Women, carried out in June 2009 at the Kwarujá village, in the Xingu Indigenous Park, in Mato Grosso State.
Director: Wisio Kayabi
Duration: 12 minutes
Version: Portuguese
WOTKO AND KOKOTXI, A TAPAYUNA STORY
“The white man killed the tapir and deer and brought them to us. My friends said: ‘Is this food good to eat?’ The white man had poisoned the food. I didn’t eat, and escaped because of that.” In the documentary directed by Kamikia Kisêdjê the memory and resurgence of the tragic contact between the Tapayuna people with the surrounding society springs up with the accounts of survivors Wotko and Kokotxi.
Director: Kamikia Kisêdjê
Duration: 50 minutes
Versions: Portuguese, English and Spanish
RECORDING SOUND – TXIMINA YUKUNANG
The Ikpeng decided to record in a CD the songs of the Yumpuno, one of the most important moments of the great Moyngo ritual, in which the boys have their faces tattooed with thorns of the tucum palm tree and charcoal extracted from the jatobá tree resin. Three generations talk about the experience of going through the Ikpeng initiation ritual, when they let go of childhood to enter adult life.
Directors: Karané Ikpeng, Kamatxi Ikpeng and Mari Corrêa
Duration: 52 minutes
Versions: Portuguese, English and Spanish
HUNTING FOR CAPYBARA – KUXAKUK XAK
Traditional inhabitants of the Atlantic Forest, between the coast of Bahia and Minas Gerais, today the Maxakali practice their ways of life and their aesthestics in a space made desert by miners and farmers that in three centuries invaded their lands. In four tries the hunters head out with their dogs and spirit friends in search of the capybara, one of the only remaining game animals of the region. But these movements are not a food search in a devastated territory. Or not only: they start and end at the song house, where what is at stake reverberates when one finds and kills those humans that became beings of another species. Movement and songs that reveal to the camera the density of the gaze, the intensity of encounters and the effervescence of events that are agitated under the apparent silence and quietude.
Director: Maxakali Collective
Duration: 57 minutes
Versions: Portuguese, English and Spanish
RISING DAY – ÃYÕK MÕKA ÒK HÃMTUP
At the village’s morning, a brume encircles and undoes the concrete limits of the body, positions, ages. To it added the smoke of house fires and the smell of strained coffee. Those that are around, wait, coexist slowly, with the certainty that they are owners in their own house. In the truck, the city, the fair, we are invaded by cuts: fences, bags, coins, rough moves, harsh words. All of these accuse a larger and first cut, the tikm_n transpassed the frontier, they are un a world of object masters, in a civilization where each thing has its place. Their presence questions us.
Director: Maxakali Collective
Duration: 34 minutes
Versions: Portuguese, English and Spanish