Culturas Indígenas

This film doc­u­ments the harsh living con­di­tions and poor state of public edu­ca­tion in the cold Peru­vian high­lands (over 4000 meters above sea level) for a female school teacher and … read more

When trying to revert the tra­di­tions aban­don­ment of his people and fol­low­ing his father research, the teacher and writer Joaquim Maná, Zez­in­ho Yube runs after the tra­di­tion­al art­works knowl­edge of … read more

The Amer­i­c­as “first con­tact” is widely rec­og­nized as having occurred in 1492. For the Ikpeng indige­nous people in Brazil, first con­tact was a doc­u­ment­ed event that occurred in Octo­ber 1964 … read more

Los Uros, the people who for thou­sands of years have been living float­ing over the cold 43 waters of lake Tit­i­ca­ca, are upon the brink of dis­ap­pear­ing. A def­i­nite con­flict divides Uro people. Those who live closer the coast and depend on tourists for their liveli­hood, wish to adapt to the world that visit and pro­vide them with their daily bread. And those living on the other side do not want con­tact with out­siders and insist on living in accor­dance with their ances­tral cus­toms of hunt­ing, fish­ing and gath­er­ing. Mean­while, they are keep­ing a fight against the Peru­vian State that refus­es to rec­og­nize them like the owners of the “ter­ri­to­ry” where they have always dwelled. María is a cen­te­nar­i­an woman, the oldest set­tler in there, through her and some other set­tlers from both sides we reach a full panora­ma con­cern­ing Los Uros. 

Direc­tor José Padil­ha’s eye­open­ing new doc­u­men­tary cen­ters on the pop­u­lar field of Yanoma­mi Indian stud­ies, but they aren’t the tribe in ques­tion. The secrets being exposed are those of the … read more

The moun­tain massif of Cutucú in the south of the Amazon region in Ecuador was a kind of defense against the envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion for the native pop­u­la­tion but in the … read more