Videoteca

Yaõkwá: Image and Memory 2020
The 'Vídeo nas Aldeias' performed with the Enawenê Nawê Indians, for fifteen years, extensive records of Yaõkwa, their longest ritual, in which the masters of ceremony pull, for seven months, a myriad of songs, in order to maintain the balance of the earthly world as a spiritual world. In this film, another fifteen years later, the Enawenê Nawê rediscover these images and, with them, deceased relatives, customs that have fallen into disuse and precious ritual songs.

Ma'e Mimiu Haw – A História Dos Cantos 2019
Chanter Tachico Guajajara shares the story of how his people learned the sacred chants that conduct their rituals and festivities.

Virou Brasil 2019

Antonio y Piti 2019 star_border 10
Thirty years ago, a rubber company enslaved a group of Asháninka people, manipulating them into tapping the trees in the lush borderland between Peru and Brazil. The company was expelled by a coalition of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, led by one mixed race couple. Now the adult children of this marriage combat political corruption and ongoing environmental disaster.

Awotsi Yorenkatsi Tasori 2015

No Caminho com Mário 2014
In the village of Koenju, in Rio Grande do Sul, young Mario and his "gang" make fun of the challenges of today's Mbya-Guarani reality.

TAVA, a Casa de Pedra 2012
Mythical-religious interpretation of the Mbya-Guarani on 17th century Jesuit reductions in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

Bicycles of Nhanderú 2011 star_border 6.2
An immersion in spirituality and everyday life of the Mbya-Guarani from the Koenju village in Southern Brazil.

Desterro Guarani 2011
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.

Corumbiara 2010 star_border 5.8
In 1985, a daring worker of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Brazil denounced a massacre in the lawless region of Corumbiara. The investigations turned to a series of indigenous genocides in the area. Spanning 20 years, the film shows the search for proof and the version of the survivors, when they were finally found, hiding in the forest, terrified of white men.

Ayani por Ayani 2010
Ayani films her grandmother, Ayani, in her daily activities.

Pi'õnhitsi - Mulheres Xavante sem Nome 2009

To our grandchildren 2008
Panará characters and filmmakers comment on the creation process of both The agout's peanut and After the egg, the war and discuss about the use of video in their community.

Two villages, one single walk 2008 star_border 10
With no Forest left to hunt and no land to cultivate, the Maby-Guarani depend on the sale of their handcraft to survive. Three young Guarani filmmakers accompany the daily life of two comunities united by the same history, since the first contact with the Europeans until the intense coexistence with today’s White people.

A Gente Luta Mas Come Fruta 2006
Asháninka videomakers create a loving portrait of their own community, located in Acre, Brazil, near the border with Peru. The people organized to preserve a sustainable way of life on their forest lands, threatened by logging. Their efforts were recognized in 2007 with the Chico Mendes Prize for the Environment.

O dia em que a lua menstruou (Nguné Elü) 2004
During a video workshop at the Kuikuro village, an eclipse happens. Suddenly, everything changes.

From the Ikpeng Children to the World 2001 star_border 3.5
Four Ikpeng children introduce us to life in their village. They show their families, their toys, and their celebrations with grace and lightheartedness. We meet the characters that make up their everyday world - from baby chickens to the village chief - and we see the children helping with chores, learning to hunt, going to school and playing games. Often comparing and contrasting themselves to earlier generations, they are aware of their cultural heritage and how it has changed since their grandparents' time. Engaging and candid, the Ikpeng children are full of curiosity and ask that people of other cultures send their own video-letters.

Shomõtsi 2001
Shomõtsi is a witty and engaging Ashaninka Indian, a father who has raised his children alone. A neighbor and friend of the filmmaker, he discusses the Ashaninka uses of anatto dye, cassava and of Coca. Unlike whites, he says, Indians respect coca's medicinal power. Shomõtsi and two other elders go to a neighboring city to collect their pensions. They have to set up camp overnight waiting for their money and grumble about the materialism of the Brazilian shopkeepers. After making a few modest purchases, Shomõtsi gladly heads back to the village.

Wapté Mnhõnõ, Iniciação do Jovem Xavante 1999

Yãkwa, o Banquete dos Espíritos 1995