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Canuto's Transformation 2023 star_border 6
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 story of Canuto, a fellow villager who turned into a jaguar and then died a tragic death. A plan soon arises to make a film about the mysterious Canuto, with the villagers playing all the roles.

Amne Adji Papere Mba - Carta Kisêdjê para o RIO+20 2012
Kisêdjê women’s manifesto against deforestation and river pollution. Filmmaker Kamikia Kisêdjê and the Kisêdjê Cinema Collective decided to send a message from their people to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. The women took the lead making the statements, forcefully expressing their worry about the devastation of the Amazon and the future of their grandchildren.

Tsõ'rehipãri - Sangradouro 2009
In 1957, after centuries of resistance and escape, a Xavante group takes refuge in the Salesian mission of Sangradouro, Mato Grosso. Today surrounded by soy cultures, with their land and resources impoverished, they show in this film their actual preoccupations in midst of all the changes they have experienced.

Prîara Jõ - After the Egg, the War 2008
The Panará children present their universe in a play day in the village. Wartime is over but it remains alive in the children’s imagination.

Xinã Bena - New Era 2006
The daily life in São Joaquim, a Huni kuin village by the Jordão River, in the state of Acre. Augustinho, the village’s medicine man (Pajé) and patriarch, his wife and his father-in-law remember the captivity in the rubber tree plantations and celebrate the new era.

Kiarãsâ yõ Sâti - The Agouti's Peanut 2005
The daily life of the Panará village during the peanut harvest, presented by a young teacher, a woman shaman and the village chief.

Wai’á Rini, o Poder do Sonho 2001
The Wai'á festival, within the long cycle of initiation ceremonies of the Xavante people, is one that introduces young people into spiritual life, in contact with supernatural forces. Director Divino Tserewahú dialogues with his father, one of the leaders of this ritual, to reveal what can be revealed from this secret party of men, where initiates go through many trials and dangers.