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PIRIPKURA

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Documentary - Completed 2017


Festivals
& Awards

Rio de Janeiro IFF 2017
Best Documentary Film (Jury Prize)
IDFA 2017
Human Rights Award
Docville 2018
Beste Internationale Documentaire
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    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Social issues
    • Countries
    • BRAZIL
    • Languages
    • BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE, SPANISH, ENGLISH, FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 82 mn
    • Synopsis
    • Pakyî and Tamandua are the only two remaining members of the Piripkura, who still live in the rainforest in a nomadic way. Their area is increasingly surrounded by sawmills and farms, that want to expand further. In order to maintain the protected status of their piece of rainforest, it must be proven that the two Indians are still alive. That is why officer Jair Candor heads into the jungle every so many years, looking for the two men.

      Piripkura shows the tragedy of the indigenous peoples and the systematic violence against them. The threat is constantly present in the background. Despite the admirable resilience and intransigence of the last Piripkura, the inevitable question lingers in the air: how much longer? The torch Tamandua carries with him gradually becomes a metaphor for the extinction of that same culture, and the role the civilized world with all its technology plays in both its decline and continued existence. Piripkura won the Human Rights Award at IDFA.
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