Washington Novaes Exhibition

Feature Films

De Longe Toda Serra é Azul (From afar, every mountain is blue)

Brazil (DF), 2023, Documentary, 85′

Directed by: Neto Borges

Indigenousist Fernando Schiavini revisits places and villages he visited in the 70s, a time when little was known about the “deep Brazil”. The history of Brazilian indigenism narrated by those who lived it and helped write it using the language of solidarity.

Itu Ninu

Mexico, Experimental, 72′, 2023

Directed by: Itandehui Jansen

In the not-so-distant future of 2084, Ángel finds himself trapped as a climate migrant in an unspecified smart city, under constant surveillance. Amid a dark and oppressive existence, Ángel makes a living growing plants, preserving the withered wisdom of the seeds. In this desolate landscape, he crosses paths with Sofia, another climate migrant who works at a recycling facility. Fate intertwines their lives when a random encounter reveals an unexpected connection: a shared language. Fueling Ángel's desire for human connection and a glimmer of hope, he reaches out to Sofia. Aware of the omnipresent digital monitoring, Ángel decides to communicate with her through the timeless medium of pen and paper, promoting an intimate and clandestine bond. As their secret correspondence unfolds, a friendship grows between Ángel and Sofia, as does their desire for freedom from excessive control.

Línguas da Floresta (Forest Languages)

Brazil (RJ), 2024, Documentary, 72′

Directed by: Juliana de Carvalho, Vicente Ferraz

Línguas da Floresta (Forest Languages) provides an immersion in the cultural diversity of the Amazon through the history, experiences and contradictions of men and women who dedicated themselves to studying the languages of the original peoples of this immense region of the planet. The film highlights the experience accumulated in Alto Rio Negro, mainly in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira. In addition to its more than 100 thousand km2, the municipality has one of the largest concentrations of languages on the planet: there are 18 ethnicities communicating through four large linguistic families branched into two dozen languages, like its large river that flows from the remote headwaters, opening paths in a huge forest and diverse. If in the beginning it was the colonizers and traders who arrived there seeking to understand the languages spoken in the Upper Rio Negro in order to exploit indigenous work, the Catholic and evangelical missions that followed had only catechesis as their final objective, even at the cost of the disappearance of the culture of many of these people. In this region, we can experience the history of Brazil's colonization. When the colonizers arrived, 1,500 linguistic nations lived on these lands. Today, there are around 150 indigenous languages spoken in Brazil. The film shows the Guarani heritage of greater São Paulo, the research at the Goeldi Museum, the tragic losses with the fire at the National Museum, the important initiative of building the Indian Museum, now the Museum of Indigenous Peoples, in the then capital of Brazil. Línguas da Floresta (Forest Languages) honors the important work of linguists and institutions dedicated to studying and protecting this important human heritage, our language, the basis of our identity.

Los Dias que Vivimos (The Days We Lived)

Spain, 2023, Documentary, 109′

Director: Chus Barrera, Pablo Barrio

After a month of activity that left thousands of evacuees and hundreds of homes destroyed, the inhabitants of the Aridane Valley (La Palma, Canary Islands) are trying to live with a volcano that continues its destructive advance and whose end does not seem near. As lava carves a new landscape, it also transforms its inhabitants, turning their lives upside down and then rebuilding them from the ashes. Journalists, emergency services, scientists, tourists and neighbors come together in endless everyday scenarios and situations. Their stories portray an unusual time and space where nature has placed at its feet humans who look uncertainly at their future and try to regain their place in the world.

Não Haverá mais História sem Nós (There will be no more history without us)

Brazil (PA), 2024, Documentary, 76′

Directed by: Priscilla Régis Brasil

Submerged in a sea of greenwashing that drowns them daily, two Amazonian filmmakers decide to denounce, in this film manifesto, the innards of the historic process of invention and exploration of the forest as an inexhaustible garden of Eden. Between Munich and Belém, they reveal how racism and prejudice, in Brazil and around the world, to this day are organized around the idea of a “demographic void”, savage and incapable of speaking for itself.

Utopia Tropical (Tropical Utopia)

Brazil (DF), 2023, Animation/Documentary, 77′

Directed by: João Amorim

Utopia Tropical (Tropical Utopia) is a documentary that invites reflection on the political, social and economic issues that shaped Latin America. Sometimes treated as somewhat undisciplined occupants of the North American backyard, the people of Latin America and particularly Brazil have here their civilizational proposal and their struggle for independence told by the North American linguist and political analyst Noam Chomsky and the Brazilian diplomat Celso Amorim. At the same time, characters, witnesses and analysts from almost a century of history, Chomsky and Amorim shed light on key events of this journey and look for the silver linings that point to a fairer and more plural Latin America. “History does not repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes”, Mark Twain.

Washington Novaes Exhibition

Short and Medium Films

Bibiru: Kaikuxi Panena

Brazil (SP/AP), 2023, Documentary, 59′

Directed by: Latsu Apalai, André Lopes

The story of Bibiru, a kaikuxi (dog) who became ill, with no luck on the hunt, and his owner Waranaré Wayana's attempt to heal it, so they can hunt together again. In an intense hunt, young people learn about the origins of ancestral dogs and the precautions they must continue to take when hunting in their territory. Indigenous reflections on relationships between humans and non-humans help to illuminate the very interactions that non-indigenous people establish with the animals they feed on. All the images were taken by young Wayana and Apalai, who were learning to film for the first time in the village of Bona (PA).

Big Bang Henda

Portugal, 2023, Documentary, 22′

Directed by: Fernanda Polacow

Tearing down statues and symbols, building new memories, framing the destroyed landscape, writing letters to the future, reversing power dynamics: Big Bang Henda is a documentary-poetry-manifesto about the work of Angolan artist Kiluanji Kia Henda. He takes us on a journey through his creations and reflections, which are at the forefront of anti-colonial thought, urging us to consider how generations who grew up during or after the war reinterpret this event.

Consumidos (Consumed)

Brazil (GO), Animation, 15′

Directed by: Caco Pereira

Lázaro longs for the pleasure of eating in a future where food is a luxury item and the majority of the population feeds on pills.

Floresta – Um Jardim que a Gente Cultiva (Forest – A Garden that We Cultivate)

Brazil (SP), 2023, Documentary, 42′

Directed by: Mari Corrêa

What does city life have to do with indigenous life? Is the fight for territory an outdated fight? Is it a primitive fight? Is it a struggle to return to the past? Floresta – Um Jardim que a Gente Cultiva (Forest – A Garden that We Cultivate) reveals a new perspective on the relationship between the forest and indigenous peoples and their fundamental role in combating the climate crisis to guarantee our own existence.

Juvana de Xakriabá

Brazil (GO), 2024, Documentary, 25′

Directed by: Silvana Beline

In Juvana de Xakriabá, we delve into the 2019 Terra Livre Camp, where Juvana, a young indigenous student, interviews women warriors from different ethnicities, revealing stories of struggle, resistance and hope. The narratives highlight the importance of preserving ancestral traditions and the strength of indigenous women in defending their territories and promoting environmental justice. The short film celebrates the resilience of indigenous communities and highlights the fundamental role of women in this fight.

Little Baluches

Iran, 2024, Documentary, 62′

Director: Raya Nasiri

ShirAbad is a neighborhood in the suburb of the city of Zahedan, in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan, Iran, where the population hopes for a better future, despite its deprivations. In this film, we tried to portray children whose hearts beat for a brighter future…

Madruga Bikes

Brazil (GO), 2024, Documentary, 24′

Director: Larry Machado

Claudiomar Felipe, also known as Madruga, is a bicycle inventor and customizer and is currently renovating his oldest project.

The Water Manifesto: Osun

Nigeria, 2022, Documentary, 51′

Director: Anuoluwapo Adelakun

This expository documentary delves into the world of unregulated gold mining in Osun State, which has caused the pollution of the Osun River and affected the environment and livelihoods of millions of people. This is a journey to uncover an entire ecosystem of greed and corruption that puts future generations at risk.

Indigenous and Traditional Peoples Cinema Exhibition

Feature Films

A Transformação de Canuto (Canuto's Transformation)

Brazil (PE/SP), 2023, Documentary, 130′

Director: Ariel Kuaray Ortega, Ernesto de Carvalho

In a small Mbyá-Guarani community between Brazil and Argentina, everyone knows the name Canuto: a man who many years ago suffered the dreaded transformation into a jaguar and then died tragically. Now, a film is being made to tell his story. Why did this happen to him? But more importantly, who in the village should play his role?

Matria Amada Kalunga

Brazil (GO), 2022, Documentary, 70′

Directed by: Lak Shamra, Thassio Freire

After the public calamity of the 2022 Paranã River flood, 27 Kalunga women from Goiás share their origins and their current daily lives.

Sekhdese

Brazil (PE), Documentary, 86′

Directed by: Graciela Guarani, Alice Gouveia

“Sekhdese” means “wisdom” in Yathê, the language of the Fulni-ô people, from Northeast Brazil. Wisdom from indigenous women, exposing the struggle for land, culture, environment and the ethnocide of which they are victims, due to the attacks of neo-Pentecostal churches.

Indigenous and Traditional Peoples Cinema Exhibition

Short Films

Caminhos Ciganos (Romani Paths)

Brazil (MT), 2023, Documentary, 24′

Directed by: Aluízio de Azevedo

Co-direction: Rodrigo Zaiden, Karen Ferreira

The paths that lead to the Romani universe in three countries, Brazil, Portugal and France, are presented in a poetic and intimate narrative, inspired by the aesthetics of award-winning Romani filmmaker Tony Gatlif, director of Lacho Drom (1992) and Gadjo Dilo (1997). In particular, Roma cultures seen from the inside, valuing their own imaginaries. The journey begins with the family of a filmmaker from the Calon ethnic group, in Mato Grosso, who crosses Brazil and crosses the Atlantic Ocean to rediscover his ancestry, recording each community, its characters and remarkable daily lives, nuances of cultural manifestations, ways of life and Romani traditions, as well as reports of historical exclusion and persecution.

Meada Cor Kalunga

Brazil (GO), 2022, Documentary, 24′

Directed by: Marta Kalunga, Alcileia Torres, Ana Luíza Reis de Sá

Like two trunks of strong roots from the Cerrado, the two villagers Marta Kalunga and Dirani Kalunga prepare the skeins and dyeing in the Vão de Almas de Goiás quilombo.

Nossa Terra (Our land) 

Brazil (AM), Documentary, 14′

Director: Maxwell Polimanti, Adriana Farias

The documentary Nossa Terra (Our land) is a journey through the cultural richness and ancestral wisdom of indigenous farmers of the Tuyuka ethnic group, who inhabit the Rio Negro region, in the Amazon. With more than 300 varieties of plants, fruits and vegetables grown, they contribute to providing healthy food for a city and maintain an intimate relationship with the land and its traditions. Among the highlights of the film are “ajuri” and “capoeira”, collective work and the rural process, whose daily life revolves around cassava, an essential element of their culture and subsistence. Recognized as Brazil's Cultural Heritage, this agricultural system is a living testimony to the harmony of forest-peoples (povos-floresta), but is at risk due to the impacts of climate change caused by human activities that degrade the environment.

Pyr

Brazil (PA), 2023, Documentary, 2′

Directed by: Bepunu Kayapó

Kokopy prepares the annatto to paint the family.

Tuire, o gesto do facão (Tuire, the machete gesture)

Brazil (PA), 2023, Documentary, 9′

Directed by: Simone Giovine, Coletivo Beture

The warrior Tuire tells her grandson Patkore details about the legendary machete gesture in the mobilization against Belo Monte in Altamira.

Vãnh gõ tõ Laklãnõ

Brazil (SC), 2022, Documentary, 25′

Directed by: Barbara Pettres, Flávia Person, Walderes Coctá Priprá

An archaeologist, a poet, a pastor and kujá, a teacher and a rap singer retrace the history of their people, the Laklãnõ/Xokleng, inhabitants of southern Brazil: the time of the forest, the near extinction, the recovery of the language and culture and political protagonism.

Goiano Cinema Exhibition

Feature Films

Capim Navalha (Razor Grass)

Brazil (GO), 2023, Documentary, 90′

Directed by: Michel Queiroz

Capim Navalha (Razor Grass) is a feature-length documentary that portrays issues experienced empirically by trans characters in Chapada dos Veadeiros. People who are different from each other, complex due to their trajectories portrayed in images, sounds, bodily territories, geography, decolonial, intersectional, and their LGBTQIAPN+ experiences. The film presents dissident gender narratives, elaborating friction and alterity with an analysis of the biopolitics and necropolitics that permeate society in cis-themes within the Central-West of Brazil.

Diaspóricas 2 (Diasporic 2)

Brazil (GO), 2023, Documentary, 75′

Directed by: Ana Clara Gomes

Brazilian music is a black woman and the meeting of women in the diaspora is capable of giving new meaning to the structural oppressions of racism and sexism. The stories of musicians from Goiás Flávia Carolina, Kesyde Sheilla, Maximira Luciano and Inà Avessa intersect in an unprecedented musical and ancestral encounter to remember the past and think about an Afrofuture of possibility for black people. They are earth, fire and air that, when they meet, become the movement of waters to make life flow through music.

Granada

Brazil (GO), 2024, Documentary, 71′

Directed by: Benedito Ferreira

The dancer Dom walks elegantly with his polka dot scarf through the streets of the center of Goiânia while the director Benedito Ferreira continues his daily effort of observing and taking photographs of the city. An attempt at a photo, a brief dialogue and, suddenly, the two sit down in a bar to talk. From this fortuitous meeting, a friendship and a plan for one last grand flamenco dance show in the Center-West of Brazil begin to take shape.

Goiano Cinema Exhibition

Short Films

A Chuva do Caju (The Cashew Rain)

Brazil (GO), 2023, Documentary, 21′

Director: Alan Schvarsberg

In the heart of a hidden valley in the depths of central Brazil, Seu Alvino and Dona Neusa plant and harvest what the land has to offer, such as cajuzinho do cerrado and baru. After more than two centuries, time continues to pass slowly in the Vão de Almas quilombo, despite the increasingly severe drought.

Aurora Frugum

Brazil (GO), 2024, Experimental, 11′

Directed by: Dan Oliveira

Adulterated colors, artificial aromas and deceptive textures. A subversive experience unfolds, confronting not only perception but also the morality behind what we consume.

Mel Tamarindo (Tamarind Honey)

Brazil (GO), 2023, Experimental, 25′

Directed by: Izabela Nascente

Mel Tamarindo (Tamarind Honey) is a play-film by Cia. Ju Cata-Histórias created from three songs by Siba Veloso. His compositions bring a particular poetic feel to the lyrics, with traces of humor, wit and a dive into important Pernambuco popular traditions, such as rural Maracatu, Ciranda and Cavalo Marinho. Moving between ideas about time, animals and the party, presented in the chosen songs, the actors Kesley Rocha, Juliana Mado and Vinícius Bolívar, under the direction of Izabela Nascente, dance, act and move between the dream universe and the everyday.

Pirenopolynda

Brazil (GO), 2023, Documentary, 24′

Directed by: Izzi Vitório, Tita Maravilha, Bruno Victor

In Pirenópolis, Goiás, the Festa do Divino has been taking place for 200 years. Tita was born in the small town and has precious, emotional memories of the party. Years later, by revisiting these memories, the artist intends to reconstruct and retraditionalize the party under an emotional and decolonial sign.

Sobre a Cabeça os Aviões (Overhead the Airplanes) 

Brazil (GO), 2022, Documentary, 19′

Directed by: Amanda Costa, Fausto Borges

Based on the crime that poisoned 92 people in 2013, at the Escola Municipal Rural São José do Pontal, in Rio Verde (GO), the short film reveals the impacts of aerial spraying of pesticides on the lives and future of the children in rural communities in Goiás. Between wonder and fear, the narrative is conducted from their own perspectives.

Um Homem Nu (A Naked Man)

Brazil (GO), 2023, Fiction, 21′ 

Directed by: Viviane Goulart

Instigated by an event in his neighborhood, Marcão quenches his curiosity when he meets Jenny, the queen of the trellis, who tells him about her night with Gilberto, and the surprise made by Primo and Rato.

Becos da Minha Terra Exhibition

Bdeery

Brazil (GO), 2023, Documentary, 13′

Directed by: Hélio Simplício

The documentary follows the student trajectory at a public university of an Karajá indigenous student in search of knowledge outside the village. It seeks to reflect the challenges faced by this student in staying at university and living far from her village and family. This is the reality of many indigenous students throughout Brazil.

chuva – este filme não é meu (rain – this film is not mine) 

Brasi/ (GO), 2023, Documentary/Experimental, 14′

Directed by: Antônio Fabrício Evangelista Barbosa

Composed of images and sounds collected on the internet and given new meanings in the editing process, this poetic-visual essay is based on the itan “Obaluaiê has the wounds transformed into popcorn by Iansã”. In this reverence for the iyabás Iansã, Nanã and Iemanjá, the power of their characteristics and rhythms give rise to a reflection on transformation, enchantment and cyclical movements.

Filme Método (Film Method)

Brazil (GO), 2023, Documentary, 14′ 

Directed by: Henrique Rocha Hernandes

Filme Método (Film Method) consisted of the production of pedagogical devices that evoked questions between the relationships between cinema and education with applicable practices of carrying out forms of technical and theoretical workshops with the 9th year class, thus relating, through memory, identity and territory, starting from the history of teacher Terezinha de Jesus Rocha, nominated for recognition of her pedagogical work during her years at the Buenolândia school.

Nóia (Paranoia)

Brazil (GO), 2023, Fiction, 3′

Director: Vincent Glen Gielen, Gabriel Tavares

No matter how hard you run, there are things in this life that you cannot escape. A simple walk can turn into an chase to protect your physical integrity and mental health.

pop star

Brazil/Brazil (GO), 2024, Fiction, 8′

Directed by: Arthur Oliveira Cintra, Lak Shamra, Vincent Glen Gielen

Arthur Cintra is a musician who longs for fame and success, but his life doesn't seem to be going so well and his dreams are far from being realized. However, sometimes, you need to go a little further to find the desired success.

Portellas na Estrada (Portellas on the Road)

Brazil (GO), 2023, Documentary, 17′

Direction: Coletivo 1º Av

The Cidade de Goiás receives tourists every day and each one brings with them stories that deserve to be recorded. Djalma Araújo was part of our group, Coletivo 1º Av, and gave us an interview at the entrance to IFG-Goiás. He shared life experiences and his current way of life, living in his motorhome. In his subjects, he told us about his participation as an eyewitness in the history of national cinema, and the circumstances in which he met his father, at the age of 70.

Revelação dos Bustos (Reveal of the Busts)

Brazil (GO), 2023, Fiction, 8''

Directed by: Antonio Carlos Gomes

In the Cidade de Goiás, the arrival of a bust brings with it an enigmatic destiny, involving Serafim in a walk through the streets and squares, in search of solving the mystery.

Sujas de Carmim (Dirty with Carmine)

Brazil/Brazil (GO), 2022, Fiction, 15′

Directed by: Silvana Beline

Two women from different social classes, united by their passion for a cheesy singer, travel from the South and Central-West of Brazil to Minas Gerais to pay homage to him after his death.

Tempo Tormento (Time Torment)

Brazil/Brazil (GO), 2023, Fiction, 15′

Directed by: Agla Manzan

Cecília is a young writer who struggles with the emotional emptiness caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the loss of her girlfriend. Emily Dickinson, the famous 19th century poet, emerges to become a mentor figure in her imagination, inspiring her to rediscover her poetry. Cecília embarks on a dreamlike journey of words and memories.

Yané Kérupi – Mulheres Indígenas Nas Artes (Yané Kérupi – Indigenous Women in the Arts)

Brazil (GO), 2023, Documentary, 11′

Directed by: Saracura do Brejo

All of Brazil is Indigenous Land, but given the context of the war that has been going on for more than 500 years against these peoples, how can art made by indigenous women transform this scenario?