The collective Guahu’i Guyra spent three years filming their people, the Guarani-Kaiowá, original inhabitants of a piece of land in Brazil. Much of of their ancestral lands have been destroyed by monoculture and deforestation. In the small territory they managed to retake, a few families try to live according to their traditional way of life, devoting a lot of attention to each other and their environment.
Set shortly after former President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, Control Plan follows a young Brazilian woman who uses her cell phone’s teleportation service to flee the country.
After spending a few months in the Vila Verde Village, the yãmĩyhex (women-spirit) prepare to leave. The filmmakers Sueli and Isael Maxakali register the preparations and the great feast for their farewell. During the feast days, a legion of spirits crosses the village. The yãmĩyhex go away, but they always come back missing their fathers and mothers
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, Brazil).
Fifty years after it was recorded, the footage of the graduation of the first and only class of the Indigenous Rural Guard reappears. In 1970, eighty indigenous marched, in uniform, in the courtyard of a police station, to the leadership of the military dictatorship. Fifty years later, the film seeks out these guards - their bodies, their stories, their memories. Fractures, silences, what remains and what is lost in violent Brazilian history.
"Yõg ãtak: My Father, Kaiowá" tells the story of Sueli Maxakali's search for her father, Luis Kaiowá, from whom she was separated during the military dictatorship in Brazil. The film follows the filmmaker's journey to find her father again, as well as the struggles faced by the Tikmũ'ũn and Kaiowá indigenous peoples in defense of their territories and ways of life.
