Cine Estalo - The Fall of the Sky (2024) | João de Una has an ox (2024) | Anhangabaú (2023)

The Falling Sky | La Chute du Ciel (2024) | Directed by Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha

Brazil | Italy | France

108 min

Documentary

SYNOPSIS

Based on the powerful testimony of Yanomami shaman and leader Davi Kopenawa, the film "The Fall of the Sky" follows the important Reahu ritual, which mobilizes the Watorikɨ community in a collective effort to hold up the sky. The film offers a scathing shamanic critique of those Davi calls the "people of merchandise," as well as of illegal mining and the deadly mix of epidemics brought by outsiders that the Yanomami call "xawara" epidemics. It foregrounds the beauty of Yanomami cosmology, the xapiri spirits, and their geopolitical power that invites us to dream far.

João de Una has an ox (2024) | Directed by: Pablo Monteiro & LAB+SLZ

Brazil |

24 min

Documentary

SYNOPSIS

Wherever there's Bumba-boi, there's devotion. At Tenda Nossa Senhora Aparecida, it's no different; there's a Boi named Estrela, a toy of the enchanted João de Una. Located in the rural area of São Luís, the terreiro has been led for 22 years by Joseph Joan, affectionately known as Pai Joan. Among all the festivals that mark the calendar of obligations, the "Death of the Boi de João de Una" takes center stage. It's a place where snare drums, drums, radios, rattles, and tambourines come together in a single territory.

Anhangabaú (2023) | Directed by: Lufe Bollini

Brazil

88 min

Documentary

SYNOPSIS

Anhangabaú is a documentary about the symbolic constructions of a disputed city. The film connects the conflicts over the territory of the Guarani Mbya indigenous community with the resistance of Ouvidor, the largest artistic occupation in Latin America, and the Teatro Oficina Uzyna Uzona group in São Paulo.