Patrícia Ferreira

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.

Teko Haxy - ser imperfeita

Sophia Pinheiro, Patrícia Ferreira

Patrícia Ferreira, Sophia Pinheiro

An intimate meeting between two women filming each other. An exploration of the relationship of two artists: an indigenous filmmaker and a non-indigenous visual artist and anthropologist.

Letter from a Guarani Woman in Search of the Land Without Evil

Patrícia Ferreira

The Land Without Evil is the mythology that guides the Guaraní communities. It narrates the search for a lost paradise. From the moment that Europeans crossed the Atlantic, it became the anima of a resistance discourse. How many different weapons does it take for a fight? The solo exhibition of Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy, one of the most engaged women among Brazil’s Indigenous filmmakers combines new works and the archive behind her audiovisual journey over the past 15 years, always in close collaboration with the Mbyá-Guarani Cinema Collective. It presents Indigenous cinematic practice as a tool of resistance and healing showcasing intimate and painful thoughts on the feminine, on spirituality, colonization, and the relationship to land.

PARÁ RETÉ

Patrícia Ferreira

Bicicletas de Nhanderú

Ariel Ortega, Patrícia Ferreira

An immersion in spirituality and everyday life of the Mbya-Guarani from the Koenju village in Southern Brazil.

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.

No Caminho com Mário

Ariel Ortega, León Ortega

In the village of Koenju, in Rio Grande do Sul, young Mario and his "gang" make fun of the challenges of today's Mbya-Guarani reality.

Nova Iorque, Mais Uma Cidade

André Lopes

Patrícia Ferreira

Young leadership and audiovisual director, Patrícia Ferreira has been recognized for the documentaries she makes with her people, the Guarani Mbya. When asked to discuss her work at one of the largest ethnographic film festivals in the world, the Margaret Mead Film Festival, held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Patrícia is faced with a series of exhibitions, debates and attitudes that the they make us reflect on the world of “juruá”, contrasting it with the Guarani modes of existence.