João Salaviza et Renée Nader Messora return successfully to the terrain of their 2018 film 'The Dead and the Others,' once more centering Krahô tribespeople as actors, subjects and storytellers. Like ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Indigenous women from Krahô communities in Brazil’s Tocantins state have formed a surveillance group to protect their ancestral territory from ...

Stories keep the past alive in The Buriti Flower, the latest film from directors Joao Salaviza and Renee Nader Messora which continues their collaboration with the indigenous Krahô community of Brazil ...

Two tribes in Brazil have refused to take part in the first World Indigenous Games later this month, criticising the event for masking violence and abuses. Leaders of the Krahô and Apinajé ethnic ...

An admirable, often fascinating fictionalized portrait of a tribal culture in Brazil informed by a young man resisting his destiny as a shaman. An indigenous teenager falls ill when he resists tribal ...

When filmmaker Renee Nader Messora and her husband, João Salaviza, moved from their home in Sao Paulo to an indigenous Kraho village in Brazil, the couple did not expect to become parents. But Messora ...

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Part of the documentary effect comes from the directors’ patient observation of landscape. Shot in 16mm in a rural region of lush forests, hidden waterfalls and burnt plains, the images that emerge ...

During her doctorate, advised by Carlini, the biologist Eliana Rodrigues, spent two years mapping the plants and recipes prescribed by the seven Shamans – healing priests in charge of looking after ...