The name replaces the old Indian Day, also on April 19 […]
This April 19th we celebrate the resistance and cultural diversity of the original peoples of Brazil.
Created as Indian Dayduring the Estado Novo, in 1943, the date was called Indigenous Peoples Day with the promulgation of law 14.402 of 2022, after a change that sought to reaffirm the struggle of original peoples for survival from colonization to current genocides.
To celebrate this date, the distributor Embaúba Filmes recently announced the launch of three titles that will be released in theaters during 2024 and will lead the public to reflect on the theme, from different perspectives.
Each of the following feature films seeks to create images that deviate from the conventional wisdom of classic documentaries about indigenous peoples, contradicting the traditional view of productions that have helped reinforce stereotypes that treat indigenous peoples exotically.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day at the cinema
THE STRANGE
Previews 6/20
This film by Flora Dias and Juruna Mallon features Guarulhos airport as the protagonist of the plot.
Built in indigenous territory, the history of the terminal is intertwined with that of its workers and the people who live and travel in the municipality of Guarulhos, in Greater São Paulo, evoking the origins of the territory and the people who occupy its spaces today.
The film focuses its gaze not on those who pass by, but on what remains there, following characters whose lives intersect in their daily work on this terrain, such as Alê, a track employee whose family history has been obscured by the construction of the airport.
THE BURITI FLOWER
Previews 04/07
The film by João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora is the fiction of a true story of the Krahô community, in Tocantins.
The work, which features indigenous people in the cast, presents a story of resistance of the Krahô people, had its own Before at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was awarded the Prix d’ensemble (Best team) of the session A certain respect (A certain look.)
In 1940, two children of the indigenous Krahô population found an ox dangerously close to their village in the darkness of the forest, a harbinger of a brutal massacre perpetrated by the region’s farmers. In 1969, the children of the survivors were forced to join a military unit during the Brazilian dictatorship.
And today, faced with old and new threats, the Krahô continue to walk their bloody land, reinventing infinite forms of resistance every day.
THE INVENTION OF THE OTHER
The first is expected in the second half of 2024
Awarded in five categories at the Brasilia Film Festival, in 2022, this film by Bruno Jorge stands out for its meticulous approach in capturing a Funai expedition to try to contact the isolated indigenous people of the Korubo ethnic group, in the Javari valley.
The production shows the contact between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples, thinking about the forms of representation that cinema can offer of the “other”, in the largest expedition in recent decades to the Amazon, in 2019.
Source: Terra
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