YAÕKWA: IMAGE AND MEMORY

Original Title: Yaõkwa: Imagem e Memória
Directors: Rita Carelli e Vincent Carelli
Documentary / 21min / 2021
Portuguese with English Subtitles

The emotions of an audience of more than one thousand Enawene Indians, in the deep Mato Grosso, Brazil, watching the images of their Yaõkwá ritual, filmed 25 years before. For 15 years, Video in the Villages performed with the Enawenê Nawê Indians, extensive records of Yaõkwa, their longest ritual, in which the masters of ceremony pull, for seven months, a myriad of songs, in order to maintain the balance of the earthly world as a spiritual world. Along the repatriation screenings, the Enawenê Nawê rediscovering these images, deceased relatives, customs that have fallen into disuse and precious ritual songs.