Vincent Carelli

Eu já fui seu irmão

Vincent Carelli

Vídeo nas Aldeias

Vincent Carelli

Corumbiara

Vincent Carelli

Altair Algaier, Monuzinho Canoê

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 indigenous genocides in the area. Spanning 20 years, the film shows the search for proof and the version of the survivors, when they were finally found, hiding in the forest, terrified of white men.

Martírio

Vincent Carelli, Tatiana Almeida

Waving the flag that states every film is political, Vincent Carelli visibilizes in this documentary the cause of the Guarani-Kaiowá: a group of indigenous people that fear their lands, located in the Mato Grosso do Sul, will be confiscated by the State. A territorial conflict born more than one hundred years ago, during the Paraguay war. While fighting against the Brazilian Congress in order not to be evicted from their homes, the 50.000 indigenous people demand the demarcation of the space that belongs to them. With some rigorous investigative work, the Brazilian director tells with his own voice of the social and political injustices suffered by the Guarani people through material he filmed over the course of more than forty years. The archive images, both color and black and white, reveal the crudeness with which they coexist every day: among the violation of their civil rights and the guts with which they confront the usurpers.

A arca dos Zo'é

Vincent Carelli, Dominique Tilkin Gallois

The Waiãpi indigenous people decide to meet and document the Zo’é people. after met, the Zo’é make the visitants know their ancestors' life style; the Waiãpi tell them about the dangers of the white world.

Meu Sangue é Vermelho

Graciela Guarani, Thiago Dezan

Criolo, Sônia Guajajara

A young indigenous rapper tries to find his identity amidst the genocide of his people.

El Espíritu de la TV

Vincent Carelli

Beginning with the arrival by canoe of a TV and VCR in their village, The Spirit of TV documents the emotions and thoughts of the Waiãpi as they first encounter their own recorded images and those of others. Viewing news broadcasts and videos of other Brazilian native peoples, the Waiãpi see the power of images to facilitate memory preservation and political awareness. Some people worry, though about the invasive spirits of outsiders that can come through the TV. Another concern is the negative exposure that might result from the Waiãpi broadcasting their own images.

Yaõkwa - Imagem e Memória

Vincent Carelli, Rita Carelli

Nhambiquara - A Festa da Moça

Vincent Carelli

Documentary about indian people Nhambiquara, living in Brazil, and their celebration of girls' first menstruation, which is for them a sign they are ready for marriage. The film also tackles their struggle to keep their cultural identity and retrieve their lost lands.

TAVA, a Casa de Pedra

Vincent Carelli, Ariel Duarte Ortega

Mythical-religious interpretation of the Mbya-Guarani on 17th century Jesuit reductions in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

Pemp

Vincent Carelli

Pemp traces the 25-year struggle of the Parakatêjê (Gavião) to maintain autonomy in the face of huge development projects in the south of Pará, Brazil. From the initial recovery of their lands in 1957 through dealings with FUNAI in the 1970s and the appropriation of Brazil nut monopolies to their negotiations with the government in the eighties, Pemp shows the Parakatêjê’s most precious project; the preservation of their ceremonies and songs. The Kokrenum, chief and keeper of the group’s traditions, uses video to transmit them to future generations.

Desterro Guarani

Vincent Carelli, Ariel Ortega

As Ariel Ortega thinks about the history of contact of the Mbya-Guarani, he tries to understand how his people got expelled from their land.

Antonio y Piti

Vincent Carelli, Wewito Piyãko (Asháninka)

Thirty years ago, a rubber company enslaved a group of Asháninka people, manipulating them into tapping the trees in the lush borderland between Peru and Brazil. The company was expelled by a coalition of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, led by one mixed race couple. Now the adult children of this marriage combat political corruption and ongoing environmental disaster.