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Sheffield DocFest · 2020

Sheffield DocFest 2020

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Films showing for free on the Sheffield Doc/Fest platform

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4 films

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Corumbiara: They Shoot Indians, Don't They?

In 1985, a daring worker of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Brazil denounced a massacre in the lawless region of Corumbiara. The investigations turned to a series of Indian genocides in the area. Spanning 20 years, the film shows the search for proof and the version of the survivors.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2009; Director: Vincent Carelli; Stars: Vincent Carelli, Altair Algaier, Monuzinho Canoê, Paulo da Silva, Inês Hargreaves, Passaká Mequém, Pedro Mequém, Pedro Rodrigues, Gigi Santos, Marcelo Santos, Vincent Carelli, Altair Algaier, Monuzinho Canoê, Paulo da Silva, Inês Hargreaves)

Screening in June

The Hyperwomen (As hiper mulheres)

Fearing the death of the elderly wife, the husband asks his nephew to perform Janurikumalu, the highest female ritual of the Upper Xingu (MT), so she can sing one more time.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2011; Director: Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette)

Screening in June

Martyrdom (Martírio)

The great reclaiming march for the sacred Guarani Kaiowá territories through Vincent Carelli’s filming, who recorded the birthplace of the movement in the 1980s. Twenty years later, touched by the successive massacres reports, Carelli searches for the origins of this genocide.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2016; Director: Vincent Carelli, Tatiana Almeida, Ernesto de Carvalho; Writer: Tatiana Almeida, Vincent Carelli; Stars: Celso Aoki, Myriam Medina Aoki, Oriel Benites, Vincent Carelli, Tonico Medina, Celso Aoki, Myriam Medina Aoki, Oriel Benites, Vincent Carelli, Tonico Medina)

Screening in June

Tava, The Stone House

Mbyá-Guarani myth, history and memory about Jesuit reductions and the ‘guaranítica’ war of 17th century that happened in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

(Year: 2012; Director: Vincent Carelli, Patricia Ferreira (Keretxu), Ariel Duarte Ortega, Ernesto Ignacio de Carvalho)

Screening in June