The Buriti Flower - Portal do Município de Vila Nova de Famalicão - Portugal

Casa das Artes | Small auditorium – 21h45

Admission: 4 euros | Students: 2 euros | Free for members of Cineclube de Joane | Original title: A Flor de Buriti (Portugal/Brazil, 2023) | Directed by: João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora | Cast: Ilda Patpro Krahô, Francisco Hyjnõ Krahô | Rating: M/12 | Running time: 120 min

Continuing with the Krahô, after Chuva é Cantoria na Aldeia dos Mortos (Rain and Song in the Village of the Dead), the film deals with one of today's most urgent themes: the Krahô struggle for land and the different forms of resistance implemented by the community of Pedra Branca village, located in the Tocantins region of Brazil. The film begins in 1940, when two children of the Krahô indigenous people find an ox dangerously close to their village in the darkness of the forest. It was the harbinger of a violent massacre perpetuated by the region's ranchers. In 1969, during the military dictatorship, the Brazilian state incited many of the survivors to join a military unit. Today, in the face of old and new threats, the Krahô continue to walk on their bloodied land, reinventing endless forms of resistance every day. A Flor do Buriti was filmed over fifteen months, on 16mm film, inside the Kraholândia Indigenous Land. As in Chuva é Cantoria na Aldeia dos Mortos, the crew was very small and divided between indigenous and non-indigenous people. Historical accounts based on conversations and the current reality of the community served as the basis for constructing the film's narrative. The Flower of Buruti premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Cast Award.