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The Village Resists

What happens when your land is being claimed as event zone for the two biggest sport events of the planet? A question that applies to the multi-ethnic urban Indigenous community of Aldeia Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as they face increased pressure ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The Indigenous group lives right next to the sport stadium that stages the finals of both sport events. They wish to maintain their land as an Indigenous meeting place, like it has been since the early 20th century, but that does not correspond with the plans of the Brazilian authorities and the corporations coming with the sport events. From within the Indigenous settlement, the film explores how the arrival of the sport events is being experienced, how the pressure rises and how the community resists.

The Village Resists

NR 2019
Cocoon

“With blurred vision it is difficult to see anything around. My eyes have grown tired of this artificial light. My lungs pull the air in a spasm even though I don't remember holding my breath. Just another craze. Adrenaline fills me. The air is always the same, I need to get out. My legs hurt, crack. If in the last 24 hours I got out of bed, it is a source of personal pride. I'm wasting time. I need to get out. Get out of that room, get out of the scenario I created myself. Get out of me.”

Cocoon

NR 2019
Leonardo Bastião, The Illiterate Poet

In Itapetim’s countryside, deep inside Sertão do Pajeú in the Pernambuco backlands lives Leonardo Bastião in a rammed earth housing, a poet who, even without knowing how to read or write, built through his improvised metrical poetry and his relationship with the local environment an overwhelming cultural universe. After a lifetime of anonymity, videos of Leonardo declaiming authorial verses surfaced online and reached millions of views and even gave birth to a book transcribed by fans. In 2019, at the age of 74, the illiterate poet reflects on life, nature and homesickness, while scholars of popular culture try to explain the media and linguistic phenomenon that is his life and work.

Leonardo Bastião, The Illiterate Poet

10.0 2019
Terras

The region of Cunha, in the Paraíba Valley, the burnt clay brick, pau-a-pique and rammed earth motivate to highlight the vernacular construction processes that are still alive, involved in the construction process of the three unique projects. In the exercise of re-imagining architecture through the daily process of transforming the primordial material that will shape the projects, the team proposes to reveal the works for the day-to-day work of two potters in the region: Zé Taubinha and Burrico.

Terras

NR 2019
Minha Deusa e Eu

“Minha Deusa e Eu” is a performance documentary about the encounter with the inner Goddess in the person of contemporaneity. Bringing an experimental language, the director and protagonist of the short film Gabrela Viera proposes a journey of self-knowledge through Ayahuasca medicine. The narrative is illustrated with elements of indigenous and Afro-Brazilian culture, mixing documentary footage and body performances to portray Gabrela's process during a ritual at the Chamado da Floresta house.

Minha Deusa e Eu

NR 2019
Rebento

What seemed to be a young couple's trivial uneasiness is redefined as a result of important news: Jéssica is pregnant and reveals it to Zói. While she seeks warmth and dialogue, he turns to a reflective state of mind further enhanced by the uncertainties of job hunting. Nonetheless, the women around him become decisive in the task of making him see the root cause of the problem: the cycle of paternal absence that he himself went through in the past but now is in a position to change.

Rebento

NR 2019