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Both groups of indigeneous Brasilians, the Waiãpi and the Zo’e, belong to the Tupi language family and share quite a bit of their traditions. But while the Waiãpi have been living in close contact with white people for the last twenty years, the Zo’é…

En 1991 más de cien mil garimpeiros invaden una reserva nambiquara en Sararé. Al mismo tiempo, los madereros talan en la selva especies en peligro de extinción. Presionado por el Banco Mundial, con el cual el gobierno de Mato Crosso negocia un…

Documentary made by the Vídeo nas Aldeias project, showing the reactions of the indigenous group Waiãpi, contacted in 1973 during the construction of the Perimetral-Norte highway in Amapá, when seeing their own image and that of Indians Gavião,…

Chief Pedro Mãmãindê, who conducted both the proceedings and the shoot itself, describes the necessity of strengthening the girls of his village by secluding them after their first menses. After several months, the village throws a party, with…

Filmed over the course of 40 years, indigenous expert and filmmaker Vincent Carelli seeks out the origins of the Guaraní Kaiowá genocide. A conflict of disproportionate forces: the peaceful and obstinate insurgency of the dispossessed Guaraní Kaiowá…

A personal account of 20 years of video activism in Corumbiara, a municipality in western Brazil. In order to stop the destruction of the habitat of isolated Native Americans, their existence will have to be proven in court. Back in 1986, filmmaker…