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Zooming into the Amazonian life, with real stories and special appearances, at the GLF Amazonia Digital Conference
About the Amazonia Film Festival
We can’t wait to celebrate the Amazonia region with you at this year’s Amazonia Film Festival. The 2021 Festival will take place online from 21-23 September 2021 during the GLF Amazonia Digital Conference. We are in the process of designing a digitally accessible Festival where our audiences and artists can come together to celebrate and discover the Amazon biome. Mark your calendars and stay tuned.
This film festival is the ultimate gathering of original storytellers and audiences seeking new voices and fresh perspectives on ‘solutions from the inside out’. Our program includes documentary features, short films, and cine forums where directors can talk about their experiences of filmmaking in the Amazon and the issues portrayed in their works, inspiring action, and reflection. Award-winning and Indigenous filmmakers from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and more engage in moderated and audience exchanges streamed live on GLF’s website and on the GLF Amazonia conference platform.
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Where did the Swallows Go?
Where did the Swallows Go?
The climate is changing, the heat rising. The Xingu indigenous people observe the signs that are everywhere. Trees are not blossoming, the fire spreads and burns the forest, cicadas don’t sing announcing the rain anymore because the heat cooked their eggs. The fruits of the gardens are spoiling before growing. When looking at the devastating effects of these changes, they wonder what the future of their grandchildren will be like.
- Best short: Festival Ambiental das Ilhas Canárias, 2016
- Award Refúgios e Mudanças: Festival ENTRETODOS de Direitos Humanos, 2016, São Paulo
- Best short: FestCine Amazônia, 2016
- Honor award – BannabaFest – Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos de Panamá, 2017
- Award best short DEFENSA DE LA VIDA, LA MADRE TIERRA Y EL TERRITORIO: 13º Festival Internacional de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas – FICMAYAB – Guatemala, 2018
- Best doc: JUMARA FESTIVAL DE CINE INDÍGENA DE PANAMÁ 2018
- Gran Premio Festival Anaconda, Paraguai, 2018
Amazon Undercover
Amazon Undercover
Due to the failure of the Brazilian government to protect the Amazon, Cacique Juarez Saw Munduruku leads an unprecedented union of indigenous and riverside people to save the forest confronting land grabbers and illegal deforestation.
Heat
Heat
Too hot! The spawning fish do not come at the right time and the pepper plants end up dying in this heat. “This is a very different weather that not even the spirits can understand.” From their gardens, homes, and backyards, the indigenous women of the Amazon involve us in their vast universe of knowledge while they observe the impacts of climate change in their ways of life.
Awards:
- Best International Short Film and First Rigoberta Menchú Award (Communities) /First Peoples Festival, Montreal, Canadá, 2019
- Best Ethnographic Film – IX Festival Internacional do Filme Etnográfico do Recife, Brasil, 2019
- Best Short Film at Amazonia Doc International Film Festival, 2020
- Best Film Indigenous Categorie at the Festival Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces, México City, 2020
YARANG MAMIN - Yarang Women’s Movement
YARANG MAMIN - Yarang Women’s Movement
The Yarang are a group of 65 women from the Ikpeng people who collect native seeds in the Indigenous Territory of Xingu (MT). Mothers, daughters, grandmothers, and granddaughters who together, over the course of a decade, have collected 3.2 tons of forest seeds. This little ants’ work made it possible to plant about 1 million trees in degraded areas of the Xingu and Araguaia river basins. These are the seeds that will form the forests of the future.