In 1940 two children of the indigenous Krahô people find a bullock in the depths of the forest, dangerously close to their village. This is the forewarning of a violent massacre, carried out by the region's cattle-ranchers. In 1969, during the Military Dictatorship, the Brazilian State induces many of the survivors to join a military unit. In the present day the Krahô continue to occupy their bloodstained territory, facing old and new threats, daily re-inventing infinite forms of resistance.
Un Certain Regard Ensemble Prize at Cannes Festival 2023.
João Salaviza e Renée Nader Messora
João Salaviza studied at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema of Lisboa and at Universidad del Cine, in Buenos Aires. Renée Nader Messora graduated from Universidad del Cine and was photographer of the short Pohí (2010), through which she got to know the Krahô. Ever since she has worked with them, contributing in the organisation of a cinema collective. In 2018, the two of them premiered The Dead and the Others in Cannes winning the Special Jury Award of Un Certain Regard.
