Movies: Zahy Guajajara

Brazil, 21st Century. An indigenous boy is born in an isolated village in the north of the Amazon. His mother and brothers believe that he is the reincarnation of Makunaíma, the creator of the world we live in, and that he would have returned to save...

The border between Brazil and Paraguay: living on opposite sides of a big river, Brazilian boy Joca falls in love with indigenous-Paraguayan girl Basano. A magical tale of impossible love and adventure in this land full of memories of colonial wars a...

The film rescues the word “karaiw”, which means “civilized”, to question the constructed image of the “savage” and “barbaric” indigenous, an image rooted in coloniality. In the work, the invention of civility is put to the test along with the ideals ...

An indigenous teacher implements the use of Ayahuasca in her classes in order to connect her students to another reality. During a ritual, one of the children comes upon a weird gear in the forest....

This project was born from the need to demonstrate the massacre of indigenous culture. The narrative emerges from the earth, representing the birth of a genuine being, in symbiosis with nature, who will go through a process of searching for identity....

Uýra, a trans-indigenous artist travels through the Amazon forest on a journey of self-discovery using performance art and ancestral messages to teach indigenous youth and confront structural racism and transphobia in Brazil....

Zahy Guajajara, 23, is one of the indigenous leaders of a village created next to Maracanã, in the old Museu do Índio, in Rio de Janeiro, threatened with demolition. In this video created with four hands with Felipe Bragança, Zahy, a shaman and story...

A manifest performance of the artist and activist Zahy Guajajara, who tell us her life story to relate the journey of indigenous peoples’ struggle for “R-existence”. She speaks about the Guardians of the Forests, a group of Guajajara who fight for th...