Practice, Tradition and Heritage Award

Krohokrenhum, leader of the Gavião indigenous people, tells his story. From the wars of the ‘brave Indian’ to the contact with the ‘White man’, from the devastation of contagion to the end of the Gavião world, he leads a movement to reconstruct the memory of his people.

A film director goes looking for places in Portugal to shoot her next film. A Resnais and experimental film enthusiast, she tries to create a narrative that blends her own story and that of a singer with whom she had a past affair.

Yarokamena, a Uitoto indigenous person, organised an armed resistance to rubber exploitation in the Amazonas. He invokes the spiritual and cosmic forces of war, releasing its destructive power from its container creating a spiral of betrayal and death.   Director Andrés Jurado will be present in both screenings.

In 1978, Jorge Cafrune, musician and Argentinian folklore icon, set out on horseback to cross the country to pay tribute to the liberator general, José de San Martín. On the first night on the road, he was hit by a van. Some believe that the crime was ordered by a [...]

Between 1958 and 1961, Margot Dias participated in four ethnographic missions to the northern end of Mozambique. She shot and taped unique recordings of Makonde culture. As she meets with Makonde people today, the director seeks the gaze of the other director.

The shellfish gatherers of a small village in southern Galicia (Spain) strive every day of the tide to sow, dig and take care of the threshold between the sea water and the sand. In symbiosis, collective consciousness and affections emerge from their bodies, their gestures, and their words. Director Diana [...]