Canuto's Transformation

Canuto's Transformation

Ariel Kuaray Ortega returns to his hometown to visit his grandfather in a region of Brazil bordering Argentina. He wants to finally hear the full...

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Martyrdom

Martyrdom

Waving the flag that states every film is political, Vincent Carelli visibilizes in this documentary the cause of the Guarani-Kaiowá: a group of...

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O Mestre e o Divino

O Mestre e o Divino

Ma'e Mimiu Haw – A História Dos Cantos

Ma'e Mimiu Haw – A História Dos Cantos

Chanter Tachico Guajajara shares the story of how his people learned the sacred chants that conduct their rituals and festivities.

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Corumbiara

Corumbiara

In 1985, a daring worker of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Brazil denounced a massacre in the lawless region of Corumbiara. The investigations...

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Antonio y Piti

Antonio y Piti

Thirty years ago, a rubber company enslaved a group of Asháninka people, manipulating them into tapping the trees in the lush borderland between...

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The Hyperwomen

The Hyperwomen

In the Kuikuro homeland of the Upper Xingu in central Brazil, the community is called upon to make preparations for the Jamurikumalu ritual: a...

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Desterro Guarani

Desterro Guarani

As Ariel Ortega thinks about the history of contact of the Mbya-Guarani, he tries to understand how his people got expelled from their land.

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The Spirit of TV

The Spirit of TV

Beginning with the arrival by canoe of a TV and VCR in their village, The Spirit of TV documents the emotions and thoughts of the Waiãpi as they...

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Virou Brasil

Virou Brasil

A arca dos Zo'é

A arca dos Zo'é

The Waiãpi indigenous people decide to meet and document the Zo’é people. after met, the Zo’é make the visitants know their ancestors' life style;...

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Yaõkwá: Image and Memory

Yaõkwá: Image and Memory

The 'Vídeo nas Aldeias' performed with the Enawenê Nawê Indians, for fifteen years, extensive records of Yaõkwa, their longest ritual, in which the...

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Pemp

Pemp

Pemp traces the 25-year struggle of the Parakatêjê (Gavião) to maintain autonomy in the face of huge development projects in the south of Pará...

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TAVA, a Casa de Pedra

TAVA, a Casa de Pedra

Mythical-religious interpretation of the Mbya-Guarani on 17th century Jesuit reductions in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

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Tsõ'rehipãri - Sangradouro

Tsõ'rehipãri - Sangradouro

In 1957, after centuries of resistance and escape, a Xavante group takes refuge in the Salesian mission of Sangradouro, Mato Grosso. Today...

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Goodbye, Captain

Goodbye, Captain

The story of ‘Captain’ Krohokrenhum, leader of the Gavião indigenous people, from Pará state in northern Brazil, who died in 2016.

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Zawxiperkwe Ka’a: Guardiões da Floresta

Zawxiperkwe Ka’a: Guardiões da Floresta

A first-person account on what it is like to be a part of the indigenous group Guardians of the Forest, in the indigenous territory Caru (Maranhão,...

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Qual é o Jeito Zé?

Qual é o Jeito Zé?

Our Languages

Our Languages

Part of the Indians in Brazil series, Our Languages relates the historic repression of indigenous languages in Brazil. Many Indian languages were...

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Ninguém Come Carvão

Ninguém Come Carvão