Films

A group of Hunikui men tell of the five ages that mark their most recent past: from ‘the time of the Indian lodge’, to first contact with the Nawá, the non-Indian people who came looking for rubber, to the ‘age of captivity’, the time of forced labour in the rubber plantations, through to the ‘time of rights’, marked by emancipation, land rights struggles and cultural revival. The film gives meaning to the experiences of dispersion, loss and reclamation that have marked Hunikui history. This film is part of Arandu: Listen to the Weather, a festival sidebar celebrating 35 years of Indigenous filmmaking from Brazil: key films and filmmakers working from the late 90s to the present. Guest curated by Graci Guarani, Takuma Kuikuro and Christian Fischgold for RAI Film Festival 2023.