Xingu
Three brothers embark on a journey that begins with a kinship with Brazil's indigenous tribes, to their creation of South America's largest national park.
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Three brothers embark on a journey that begins with a kinship with Brazil's indigenous tribes, to their creation of South America's largest national park.
Water in Dispute! With the permanent damming of the Xingu River in 2015, the quantity, speed, and level of water in the region no longer derive from the natural flow of the river, but rather from the company operating th
Directed by the photographer Maureen Bisilliat, the documentary portraits the everyday life in the indigenous village of Mehinaku, in Alto Xingu, showing the planting and harvest of cassava, the fishing, the preparation
"The Xingu River obeys no laws; it has been restoring and resurrecting spirits against all the evil that has been done to it," proclaims Dona Raimunda, who, with her double-edged axe, justly separates evil from good. Her
Flute player Carlos Malta searches for traditional pife players and the mutual dependencies they share with the contemporary music to which he belongs.
The government-planned hydroelectric Belo Monte dam would be the world's third-largest and would displace tens of thousands of indigenous people and local farmers who depend upon the Xingu tributary of the Amazon for the
Inspired by the 18th article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which says that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, the documentary shows how Agahü is traditionally made and
Michael Engel's curiosity about anthropology took him to the Xingu National Reservation in the Lower Amazon Basin, where he lived with the natives for a month. Aided by Brazil's top anthropologist, João Americo Peret, he
The film explores the ancient artistic tradition of the indigenous peoples of Brazil, focusing on the manual creation of wooden benches carved from tree trunks and decorated with natural pigments. These pieces of art, wh
Aspects of the life of the Kamaiurá, an indigenous tribe that inhabits the Upper Xingu. The manioc-based food, the training with bow and arrow and the work carried out by the young Indian, the girls learn how to spin, an