Without the forest there is no future. Resist along with the #PeopleOfTheForest. The indigenous, the quilombolas, the riverside and the extractivist communities protect the forests, which regulate the climate and the rain while serving as the source of new medicine. They are the guardians of our future. Know more: https://isa.to/2ZsWHFt and do your part: https://isa.to/2UzS7Bv.

Jair Bolsonaro vowed that he wouldn’t sanction new indigenous land during his administration. With that said, we remember that the indigenous people in Brazil have been resisting for the last 500 years, and that their fight is by no means close to a halt. In this short documentary, we listen to the indigenous community of Piaçaguera, located only an hour and a half from Latin America’s biggest city: São Paulo.

Without the forest there is no future. Resist along with the #PeopleOfTheForest. The indigenous, the quilombolas, the riverside and the extractivist communities protect the forests, which regulate the climate and the rain while serving as the source of new medicine. They are the guardians of our future. Know more: https://isa.to/2ZsWHFt and do your part: https://isa.to/2UzS7Bv.

The children of the Aiha Kalapalo village, located at the Alto Xingu Indigenous Park (MT), are the protagonists of this film and have chosen to show some aspects of their routine and culture. The film is a collective production of indigenous and non-indigenous filmmakers and anthropologists.

Location: Território Indígena do Alto Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Communities / Ethnicities represented in the film: Aldeia Aiha – Povo Kalapalo – Alto Xingu.

Our origins, our people, our culture, our land and our ancestrals are being wiped out. A path that has no turning back and demands immediate action and attention. It is necessary to Resist to Exist. This is an experimental film shot on Super 8mm. The film documents everyday moments that juxtapose with scenes of resistance from different indigenous communities during a protest in São Paulo. The film also has the narration of Leila Rocha Guarani Nhandeva (indigenous leadership of Yvy Katu/ Porto Lindo; Guarani-Kaiowás- Mato Grosso do Sul). 

Locations: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia and Pernambuco states, Brazil.

Long before chocolate became industrialized, the Maya civilization utilized sacred cacao as a heart opener and to connect with nature in order to understand its delicate balance and divinity. We believe the medicine of cacao and the burgeoning cacao culture can bring about the change necessary to save us from destroying our planet.

Location: Guatemala. Communities / Ethnicities represented in the film: Mayan Tzutujil.

Abraim was exchanged for a cow. Memories of a leader of the Macuxi people in the frontier of Brazil and Guiana.

Location: Terra Indigena Raposa Serra do Sol, Roraima, Brazil. Communities / Ethnicities represented in the film: Macuxi.

The Xingu Women’s Movement is one the most relevant and organized feminist groups in Brazil’s indigenous community today. Based in the Parque Indígena do Xingu (Xingu National Park), the group aims to fight for the emancipation of all indigenous women and for their greater participation in local and national politics. This short film and manifesto  is an invitation for everyone to join these women while making their voices louder and their messages heard.

Locations: Aldeias do Baixo Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Communities / Ethnicities represented in the film: Kayabi, Suia, Juruna, Yawalapiti, Matareiup and others.

A short documentary about the Earth as Mother and the impacts of oil and gas drilling on Native American tribal lands in the United States, particularly the Blackfeet Reservation in North Central Montana. Outside entities promise economic wealth and prosperity to territories whose unemployment rate hovers at 70%. Exploitation of people, land, and resources is not new to the Native American. How does seeing the Earth with a ‘spiritual eye’ affect the oil and gas industry of Native Lands?

Locations: Yakama Nation – White Swan, WA; Blackfeet Nation – Browning, MT; New York State, USA. Communities / Ethnicities represented in the film: Cree, Blackfeet, Mohawk.

This stop motion animation film was created collectively in a Workshop on Vision of Goodliving for the Peruvian Amazon (Visiones del Buen Vivir para la Amazonía Peruana). It shows the destruction and contamination of the Amazonian rivers and the rainforest. Thanks to the spiritual connection with nature through the Ayahuasca medicine, the indigenous people vision a co-existence with an abundant and healthy rainforest.

Locations: Yarinacocha, Ucayali, Peru. Communities / Ethnicities represented in the film:Shipibo-Konibo, Awajún, Ashaninka.

The Karipuna Indigenous Land, located in the municipalities of Nova Mamoré and Porto Velho (Rondônia State), has been destroyed, especially by the invasion of loggers and grileiros. Although the land was demarcated by the Presidency of the Republic in 1988, deforestation and the degradation of the territory already results more than 11 thousand hectares. The Karipuna, who had recent contact with the surrounding society, were almost extinct in the 1970s. With a current population estimated at only 60 people, in recent years the Karipuna have been denouncing to the state the recurrent threats and intimidation that have been suffering. 

Location: Terra Indígena Karipuna, Rondônia, Brazil. Communities / Ethnicities represented in the film: Povo Karipuna.