The Buriti Flower
Un Certain Regard
Ensemble Prize
The Buriti Flower
A Film by Joao Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora
2023 - Brazil/Portugal - Drama - 1.66 - 124 min.
with Francisco Hyjnõ , Luzia Cruwakwyj & Debora Sodré
Languages: Krahô , Portugese
Produced by Joao Salaviza
Through her child’s eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest. Tirelessly persecuted, but guided by their ancestral rites, their love of nature and their fight to preserve their freedom, the Krahô never stop inventing new forms of resistance.
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