HOLDING UP THE SKY

By Pieter VAN EECKE

EESTI RAHVUSRINGHÄÄLING - as BROAD

Documentary - Completed 2023


Festivals
& Awards

FIFDH 2023
Festival Del Cinema Dei Diritti Umani Di Napoli 2023
Special FICC Award for Best Human Rights Doc
Imagine Science Film Festival 2023
Leeds Film Festival 2023
Globale Mittelhessen DOC Film Festival 2023
Ulsan Ulju Mountain Film Festival 2023
Verzio Doc Film Festival 2023
Rokumentti Rock Film Festival 2023
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, BRAZIL
    • Duration
    • 82 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Pieter VAN EECKE
    • Producer(s)
    • Phlypo HANNE, Hasse VAN NUNEN, Renko DOUZE
    • Synopsis
    • If the shamans stop dancing and life in the rainforest loses its balance, the sky will fall and crush everything beneath it. This wisdom is passed on in the Brazilian Amazon by every generation of Yanomami. But gold diggers pollute the rivers, shamans die, the rainforest perishes and the earth warms up. Davi Kopenawa, shaman, chief, and well-known spokesperson for the Yanomami, has been fighting these threats for more than 40 years. Time and again, he travels the world defending his people against endless colonization. Do the Whites understand that the fall from the sky will not only crush the Yanomami?