Films

A curated programme streaming online 3-31 March 2023. Click here to buy an online festival pass.

Live in Bristol 22-25 March 2023.

At ICA (London), Sunday 19 March 2023, 18:15

The aim of ARANDU – LISTEN TO THE WEATHER is to highlight the artistic, political, cultural, preservation and environmental issues raised by Indigenous film, from the point of view of the Indigenous communities themselves.

Background Since the 1980s, audiovisual production has been an essential tool of struggle and resistance for Brazilian Indigenous groups, mixing ethical, political, cosmological and aesthetic components.

Currently, about 90% of Brazilian Indigenous communities have their own filmmaker, who is responsible for cultural archiving, transmitting audiovisual technical knowledge to younger generations, and for disseminating information and images to mainstream media.

The Indigenous filmmakers have established themselves as key figures in the symbolic production of knowledge, contributing to subvert and decolonize commonly accepted visual notions about what it means to be Indigenous.

In this context, Indigenous film production has become a fundamental aspect of contemporary Latin American cinema. These films were awarded at important film festivals , especially in the UK, Canada, the US, France, Portugal, Italy, Brazil, Austrália, Belgium, Germany, Chile, and Mexico.

Curators biographies:

GRACI GUARANI is one of the pioneer indigenous women in original audiovisual productions. She is a professor of the course Indigenous Women and New Social Media – from Invisibility to Access to Rights (UN Women Brazil). She was a facilitator of the workshop Ocupar a Tela: Mulheres, Terra e Movimento [Occupying the Screen: Women, Earth and Movement] Instituto Moreira Salles and Museu do Índio, 2019. In 2020, she participated in the Women in Media and Cinema roundtable at the 70th Berlinale.

CHRISTIAN FISCHGOLD holds a PhD in Comparative Literature (Brazil – Africa). He is currently a Visiting Researcher at the CEstA – Centro de Estudos Ameríndios-USP (2022). He worked at the University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures (2020-21, UK), with research on works by indigenous filmmakers in Brazil. He holds a post-doctorate in Theory and Literary History at the Institute of Language Studies (IEL Unicamp, Brazil, 2019), with research on Brazilian Cultural Anthropophagy and Angolan Cultural Neo-animism. Dr Fischgold researches the relationships between literature, anthropology, and cinema, with emphasis on interdisciplinary relationships between aesthetics and politics and on contemporary identity reconfigurations. He has also developed projects in the experimental film area, and collaborated in collective volumes and published articles in several academic journals. Creator and curator of the 1st Brazil Indigenous Film Festival UK. TAKUMÃ KUIKURO Internationally renowned filmmaker Takumã Kuikuro grew up in Ipatse village, in the Xingu Indigenous Land, in the Brazilian Amazon basin. His productions The Day the Moon Menstruated and Hyperwomen have gained international recognition. Filmmaker, member of the Kuikuro indigenous people. Founder of the Kuikuro Film Collective. He is president of the Alto Xingu Family Institute (IFAX). In 2017, he received the Queen Mary University London Honorary Scholarship Award. In 2019, he was the first indigenous judge at the Brazilian Film Festival in Brasília. Creator and curator of the 1st Brazil Indigenous Film Festival UK.