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Kinja Iakaha
In A Day in the Village, Waimiri and Atroari filmmakers document the day-to-day life of their relatives in the Cacau village, located in the Amazon region. We watch as women prepare the midday meal and do laundry in the river. Men hunt for alligators, paca and tapir in the forest as well as make handcrafts during a rainstorm. Children play and help with chores such as fruit-gathering and fishing, with adults showing them the right way to do things. Through intimate, interwoven images, the video gives us a vivid sense of the daily pattern in this village. (Documentary Educational Resources) -
The Territory
Dual forces of climate change and cultural genocide overlap to devastating effect in The Territory, threatening not just a native community but a wider ecosystem — and cheered on by the actively hostile powers that be. Riveting and despairing in equal measure, freshman director Alex Pritz’s documentary immerses us over the course of three years in the lives, livelihoods and dwindling homeland of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people, whose supposedly protected patch of Amazon rainforest is under attack from all sides by farmers, miners and settlers who think nothing of deforesting swaths of jungle that don’t belong to them. For the Uru-eu-wau-wau, themselves rapidly diminishing in number, fighting back is essential but ugly, and anybody hoping for a comfortingly inspirational takeaway from “The Territory” may be disappointed. [...] And while the presence of Darren Aronofsky as a producer may be an additional draw to prospective distributors for this National Geographic-style doc, more telling production credits here go to the Uru-eu-wau-wau themselves. Not content merely to be sympathetic victims under the gaze of the camera, they often wield it themselves, and the film benefits from their righteously inflamed point of view. Pritz shares camera duties here with tribe member Tangae Uru-eu-wau-wau, who brings tense in-the-moment immediacy to footage effectively shot from the frontline of this land battle. Source: Lodge, Guy. "The Territory Review: Indigenous Brazilians Stand Their Ground in an Urgent Environmental Docu-Thriller." Variety.com, sec. Film, 22 January 2022. https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/the-territory-review-1235160642.Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
A Arca dos Zo’é
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 are about to make their first experiences with them. In the context of the Video in the Villages project by the Centro de Trabalho Indigenista the Waiãpi have met the Zo’é through video. They recognized their lifestyle as being similar to what oral history tells them about the life of their own ancestors. Waiwai, chief of the Waiãpi has been visiting the Zo’é together with a small filmcrew. In Meeting the Ancestors Waiwai tells his own people about his experiences on the trip and he comments the video sequences shot with the Zo’é. (Freiburger FilmForum: Festival of Transcultural Cinema) -
The Return
Mientras millones de personas en todo el mundo se vieron obligadas a encerrarse en la crisis del coronavirus, una familia de la Amazonia ecuatoriana optó por adentrarse en la relativa seguridad de la selva. A medida que se reconectaban con el conocimiento ancestral latente, lejos de las distracciones de la vida moderna, su afinidad con la naturaleza comenzó a florecer. Mientras se extendía la noticia de que Ecuador podría levantar pronto el toque de queda, ¿dónde se quedará la familia? (Ecoador.org) -
Boca Livre no Sararé
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 préstamo, éste consigue la expulsión de los invasores. Pero el robo de la madera continúa y el regreso de los garimpeiros puede ocurrir en cualquier momento. (Portal del cine y audiovisual latinoamericano y caribeño)Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
Serras da desordem
Tras sobrevivir a una masacre que exterminó a su poblado, Carapirú, un indio Awa Guajá, huye y pasa diez años deambulando por las regiones más aisladas de Brasil. En noviembre de 1988, a 2.000 kilómetros de la selva de la que tuvo que escapar, un antropólogo experto en el mundo indígena lo descubre y lo arrastra a Brasilia, donde Carapirú se convierte en un fenómeno mediático. Disolviendo los límites entre realidad y ficción, y con un sentido del humor y una libertad cercana al libertinaje formal, Serras da desordem reconstruye el viaje inicial de Carapirú, y retrata a través de su historia la tragedia de una cultura violada en aras de un progreso inventado y brutal. (Film Affinity ES)Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
Allpamanda
Desde hace mas de 500 años de colonización los problemas se habían acumulado y convertido en una amenaza constante a la supervivencia de las nacionalidades indígenas de la amazonía. En agosto de 1980, el primer congreso de las nacionalidades indígenas de la amazonía ecuatoriana culminó con la formación de la confederación de nacionalidades indígenas de la amazonia ecuatoriana, CONFENIAE. A partir de este momento inicia una nueva fase para las organizaciones indígenas de toda la región. La organización indígena uniría aproximadamente a 1.500 comunidades, de las 11 nacionalidades amazónicas del ecuador: kichwa, shuar, achuar, waorani, sapara, andwa, shiwiar, ai ́cofan, siona, siekopai y kijus. El motivo principal de las comunidades indígenas era organizarse y defenderse del saqueo de sus territorios y de la brutal explotación de su trabajo en manos del patrón, misiones o empresas. Un pueblo sin cultura no puede existir, un pueblo sin territorio no puede vivir, un pueblo sin idioma, no sería pueblo. La organización luchará para fomentar la unión de todas las nacionalidades defendiendo su vida, resistiendo frente a las empresas extractivistas y al saqueo capitalista, creando unidad entre todos los indígenas de la amazonía. Unidad, territorio, justicia y libertad. (Tawna, Cine desde el Territorio)
Allpamanda es una película que relata 7 casos emblemáticos de luchas por la defensa de los territorios y derechos colectivos en la Amazonía ecuatoriana. A partir de un material de archivo y de entrevistas grabadas en los territorios con líderes y lideresas defensores de las selva, el documental traza la memoria del movimiento indígena amazónico del Ecuador desde 1980 hasta hoy, en una coproducción entre Tawna, cine en territorios y la Dirigencia de Comunicación de la Confeniae. (Comunicación Confeniae) -
Los invencibles Shuaras del Alto Amazonas
El film fue dividido en cuatro partes: la primera en el mar de Génova y posterior llegada al oriente. La segunda trató sobre las costumbres de los Jíbaros y sus formas de caza. La tercera sobre la fiesta de la Tzanza o cabeza reducida y la cuarta mostraba la obra salesiana en las Misiones del oriente y la del Comité Patriótico orientalista de señoras. Esta obra es considerada como el primer documental antropológico ecuatoriano; inaugura una larga historia de estereotipos y discriminación que aún pesan sobre los pueblos indígenas de este país. (Cine Latinoamericano) -
Helena de Sarayaku
Helena is a 17-year-old student in Finland. Her father is Swedish, and her mother is originally from the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, who live in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon. On a recent trip there, Helena participates in the traditional Uyantza Raymi cultural festival, and meets with Kichwa leaders who ask her to deliver a message to the world — Kawsak Sacha, or ‘Living Forest,’ an innovative concept in conservation, in which the jungle is considered to be a living being. After COVID-19 confines Helena in Puyo — the closest city to Sarayaku — she learns that 80% of her community has been infected with the virus, and that the Bobonaza River has flooded part of her village. She is Helena of Sarayaku, and this is her story. (Insitutute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University) -
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Pïrinop, meu primeiro contato
Following their "first contact" in 1964, the Ikpeng people (called Txicão in Portuguese) were relocated to the great Upper Xingu reserve, where their lives would no longer be threatened by settlers. A viewing of a filmed record of this signal event in their history evokes a stream of memories and provides a rare account of contact from the indigenous point of view. The consequences of contact and resettlement still impact the community, even as the Ikpeng gain more control over their future. (World Cat) -
Río Verde: El tiempo de los Yakurunas
El documental explora la percepción del tiempo en tres comunidades unidas por las aguas del Amazonas, sumergiéndose en un paisaje habitado por chamanes y sociedades arquetípicas. Narrativa híbrida que retrata los cuerpos de ancianos indígenas para invocar los fantasmas de la explotación del caucho a finales del siglo XIX y convocar la memoria de antiguas culturas aún vivas, pero en peligro de desaparecer a consecuencia del capitalismo global (Habana Film Festival) -
The Return
Mientras millones de personas en todo el mundo se vieron obligadas a encerrarse en la crisis del coronavirus, una familia de la Amazonia ecuatoriana optó por adentrarse en la relativa seguridad de la selva. A medida que se reconectaban con el conocimiento ancestral latente, lejos de las distracciones de la vida moderna, su afinidad con la naturaleza comenzó a florecer. Mientras se extendía la noticia de que Ecuador podría levantar pronto el toque de queda, ¿dónde se quedará la familia? (Ecoador.org) -
Amazônia Eterna
The Amazon is a vast laboratory for sustainable experiments that are revealing new relationships among human beings, corporations, and the natural heritage crucial for life on the planet. This is where the guidelines are being drawn up for a new global economic model: the green economy. With an astonishing soundtrack and cinematography, Eternal Amazon presents a critical analysis of how the world’s largest tropical rainforest is understood and utilized. Exploring the Amazon’s five million square kilometers—home to 20% of the world’s freshwater reserves—the film asks whether it is possible for humans to make sustainable use of the rainforest by featuring nine successful projects for sustainable forest use that directly benefit the local population and foster good economic partnerships. Experts like economist Sergio Besserman, ecologists Bertha Becker and Virgilio Viana, and Amazonians themselves explain activities such as agriculture, fisheries, and animal husbandry. The film portrays the daily lives of the forest people as the guardians of this great natural heritage that, if properly managed, could last into eternity. (Pragda)Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
Cumandá
Basada en la novela de Juan León Mera, que narra los amores de Carlos Orozco, hijo de un rico hacendado de la provincia de Chimborazo, y Cumanda, una joven que vive con una tribu de la amazonia, sin embargo ella no parece indígena. En esta producción se muestra las distintas culturas de la amazonia ecuatoriana y su extraordinaria biodiversidad. (NativeAmericanFilms.org)Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
Pïrinop, meu primeiro contato
Em 1964, os índios Ikpeng têm seu primeiro contato com o homem branco numa região próxima ao rio Xingu, no Mato Grosso. O filme relata este encontro, ou o que restou dele: as lembranças, o exílio, a terra abandonada, o desejo e a luta pelo retorno. (Film's Official Website) -
Embrace of the Serpent
As the film opens, we are gliding along the Amazon River toward someone perched along the shore. This is Karamakate [...] a shaman in the jungle, and one of the last of his people. He is being approached by Theo von Martius (inspired by Theodor Koch-Grünberg), a German ethnographer and his assistant Manduca, an Amazonian man in European dress. Theo has fallen ill, and the many shamans who have tried, but failed, to cure him have pointed him in the direction of Karamakate, who they believe can heal Theo with a sacred entheogenic plant called yakruna. As the three begin their journey up the river to find the plant, the film quickly moves forward in time. Karamakate is now an old man, once again living in isolation, but the extreme toll of being the sole heir of his peoples’ memories has caught up with him. He is now visited by Evan, an American (inspired by famed ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes), who once again convinces Karamakate to head out in search of yakruna. Source: Allen, Ian. Review of Embrace of the Serpent. Comparative Education Review, vol. 63, no. 4, November 2019, pp. 658-659.Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
Cenizas eternas
Cenizas eternas, protagonizada por la actriz y modelo venezolana Patricia Velásquez y ópera prima de la directora Margarita Cadenas, cuenta la historia de Ana, una mujer que durante los años 50 viaja al Amazonas y sufre un trágico accidente en el Río Orinoco. Sola en la selva, Ana es invadida por el miedo a lo desconocido. En la ciudad su familia la da por muerta, pero Elena, su hija, interpretada por Danay García, vive con la esperanza de encontrarla un día. Pasados los años, Elena crece y decide buscar a su madre. Con ayuda de su tía y un sacerdote, se interna en la selva para buscar a una napeyome, extranjera en lengua Wayúu, de la que hablan los niños yanomamis y quien Elena presiente es su madre. El drama y el suspenso se mantienen en todo el largometraje anunciando su inesperado final. (NativeAmericanFilms.org) -
Pisa ligeiro
É um documentário de Bruno Pacheco, produzido nos primeiros anos da década passada, com poplações indígenas de diferentes regiões do país. O filme é um resumo das movimentações políticas- e seus resultados- desde a promulgação da Constituição Federal de 1988, sob o ponto de vista de lideranças indígenas e as expectativas quanto ao futuro. Preservação da cultura, terras, respeito à sua identidade indígena, acesso à educaçāo e saúde sāo alguns dos temas mais importantes para essas proulações e guiam seus movimientos e articulações. (Povos do Brasil)Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
Corumbiara
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 Vincent Carrelli first got involved in a hunt for the remains of an Indian village, which had been wiped off the map by a landowner. Unfortunately, the tools that they found were insufficient to stand up in court. In the years that followed, Carrelli returned to the region on several occasions, convinced that the Native Americans lived there and determined to record this fact with his camera. The film documents the heartwarming contact between the researchers and a family of Canoé Indians, and contains unique footage of one of the last survivors of an unknown tribe. But the activists also must deal with disappointing defeats in the face of landowners, lumber merchants and farmers, and even instances of gruesome violence. Ultimately, the film also asks questions about the legitimacy of the hunt for footage. To what extent is it justified to invade the habitat of people who shun any attempt at contact - even if that invasion occurs with the intent to protect them from greater external aggression? (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
Xingu
A gripping account of a collision of cultures, "Xingu" tells the inspiring true story of the three Villas Bôas brothers, who became the leading advocates for Brazil's Amazonian Indians, an effort that culminated in the founding of a mammoth tribal preserve. Directed by Cao Hamburger, "Xingu" begins in 1943, when the brothers -- Orlando (Felipe Camarago), Cláudio (João Miguel) and Leonardo (Caio Blat) -- sign up for Brazil's March to the West, an expedition to explore and open the interior for development. Smitten by the land's raw beauty, they are also fascinated by the indigenous people there. Orlando, the eldest and a natural politician, defuses the tensions when they meet the Xavante, who have not seen white men before. When a flu epidemic kills half the tribe, the brothers vow to protect the natives from the forces of civilization that they represent. "We are the poison," Cláudio says, "and the antidote." The brothers eventually win the creation, in 1961, of the Xingu National Park, a preserve larger than Maryland. The film makes clear that not everyone agrees with the Xingu approach, that one answer does not fit all. But as natives maintain traditional lives there, they can integrate into the larger society, by their own choice and at their own speed. Source: Gold, Daniel M. Review of Xingu, by Cao Hamburger. New York Times, 14 Mar 2014, sec. C8.Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
Iskobakebo, un difícil reencuentro
Pibia Awin es una de cinco ancianos Iskobakebo (Isconahua) que fueron arrancados de su aldea y ahora viven en la cuenca del río Callería, en Perú. Son los últimos sobrevivientes Iskobakebo, un pueblo que habitaba en la profundidad del bosque, en aislamiento. Una visita inesperada sugiere que sus parientes se encuentran en la Amazonía brasileña, y entonces nace la esperanza del reencuentro. Este documental nos acerca al mundo de los indígenas en aislamiento voluntario de la frontera Perú-Brasil y las graves amenazas como la carretera Pucallpa-Cruzeiro do Sul, la tala ilegal, el narcotráfico y los conflictos territoriales que ponen su existencia en permanente peligro. (Film's Official Website)Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
El socio de Dios
A principio del siglo XIX, el empresario Julio Cesar Arana, conocido como “el socio de Dios”, se alía con empresas extranjeras, en su mayoría europeas, para explotar las reservas de caucho en la región de la Amazonía peruana. Su éxito y poder se basa en su falta de escrúpulos. No se detiene ante nada, ni siquiera ante el exterminio de las tribus originarias. De este modo ocurren los llamados crímenes de Putumayo; las comunidades amazónicas se revelan y resisten. (Festival Cannes)Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
La terra degli uomini rossi
Cuando una tribu de guaraníes indígenas intenta volver a habitar su tierra ancestral, que se encuentra en la frontera de los campos de un rico terrateniente, aumentan las tensiones. (Translation by Liam Lewis) -
El abrazo de la serpiente
Al abrir la primera escena, nos deslizamos sobre el Amazonas hacia alguien esperando en la orilla del río. Este es un chaman llamado Karamakate que vive en la selva y es uno de los ultimos sobrevivientes de su tribu. En el primer viaje se le acercan Theo von Martious (inspirado por Theodor Koch-Grünberg), un etnógrafo alemán y su ayudante Manduca, un hombre indigeno en vestuario europeo. Theo está enfermo, y muchos chamanes han intentado curarlo, pero han fallado así que lo dirijen a Karamakate, quien creen que tiene la capacidad de curarlo con la ayuda de la planta sagrada llamada yakruna. Mientras los tres comienzan su viaje por el río para encontrar la planta, la película avanza rápidamente en el tiempo. Karamakate es ahora un viejo, y es el unico heredero de los recuerdos de su tribu. Ahora lo visita Evan, un estadounidense (inspirado por el famoso etnobotánico Richard Evans Schultes), quien una vez más convence a Karamakate a salir en busca de yakruna. (Translated by Paola Martínez)Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
El abrazo de la serpiente
As the film opens, we are gliding along the Amazon River toward someone perched along the shore. This is Karamakate [...] a shaman in the jungle, and one of the last of his people. He is being approached by Theo von Martius (inspired by Theodor Koch-Grünberg), a German ethnographer and his assistant Manduca, an Amazonian man in European dress. Theo has fallen ill, and the many shamans who have tried, but failed, to cure him have pointed him in the direction of Karamakate, who they believe can heal Theo with a sacred entheogenic plant called yakruna. As the three begin their journey up the river to find the plant, the film quickly moves forward in time. Karamakate is now an old man, once again living in isolation, but the extreme toll of being the sole heir of his peoples’ memories has caught up with him. He is now visited by Evan, an American (inspired by famed ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes), who once again convinces Karamakate to head out in search of yakruna. Source: Allen, Ian. Review of Embrace of the Serpent. Comparative Education Review vol. 63, no. 4, November 2019, pp. 658-659.Tags Amazon / Amazonas -
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Bye Bye Brasil
The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdô, join the troupe. Television is their enemy as they go from the coast deep into the Amazon. Salomé lets the accordionist sleep with her once, with Dasdô's knowledge. He's moon-struck. Then, after Dasdô's baby is born and financial disaster hits the troupe, the accordionist must choose between seeing his wife a prostitute and leaving the caravan.Tags Amazon / Amazonas