Dir: Ariel Kuaray Ortega & Ernesto de Carvalho, Brazil, 2023, 131 mins, Guarani, Spanish and Portuguese,18 (CTBA)
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Wed 6 August // 19:30
Tickets: £6
In a small Mbya-Guarani community between Brazil and Argentina, everyone knows the name Canuto: a man who many years ago suffered the dreaded transformation into a Jaguar, and then died tragically. Now, a film is being made to tell his story. Why did this happen to him? But more importantly: who in the village should play his role?
Ariel Kuaray Ortega
Pioneer indigenous filmmaker and Mbyá-Guarani leadership behind celebrated films such as “Two villages one path” (2008) and "Nhanderú’s Bicycles” (2010) alongside other Guarani indigenous filmmakers, through Vídeo has Aldeias (“Video in the Villages”) workshops, and also "Guarani Exile” (2011) and "Tava - the house of stone (2012)" directed alongside Ernesto de Carvalho, Patrícia Yxapy Ferreira and Vincent Carelli. Ariel is a member of the Mbyá-Guarani Cinema Collective (Brazil) and the Ara Pyau Cinema Collective (Argentina). Also directed the short film “Our spirits keep coming”(2021) with Bruno Huyer and Patrícia Yxapy Ferreira.
Ernesto de Carvalho
Brazilian filmmaker, photographer and editor, with an Anthropology PhD from New York University, has collaborated with Mbyá-Guarani communities on films for over 15 years through the Vídeo nas Aldeias project. Co-director and photographer of the celebrated feature documentary “Martírio” (2016), winner of many international prizes. Ran workshops that produced several indigenous films such as “I've already become an image” (2008). Directed alongside Ariel Ortega, Patricia Yxapy Ferreira and Vincent Carelli the films “Guarani Exile” (2011) and "Tava - the house of stone” (2012). Also directed the acclaimed short film “It’s never nighttime in the map” (2016).
Best Film and Outstanding Artistic Contribution Awards at IDFA Envision
Best Film at Jean Rouch IFF
Best Film at West Lake IDF
Best Film at Cali IFF
Best Film and Audience Award at Festival de Cine de General Pico
Best Film at PerSo FF
Special Mention at Tempo Doc Fest
Best Direction, Photography and Script at Brasilia FF
Best Film at Festival de cinéma latino-américain de Paris
Honorable Mention at Ecofalante FF
Closing film at Docs Buenos Aires
Closing film at Tiradentes FF
Selected at Taiwan IDF, Cinelatino Toulouse, Cartagena IFF
Timings
19:00 - Doors open
19:30 - Screening starts