A young Indigenous man relates his experience of moving away from his village for the first time to live in Altamira, one of the Amazon’s most heavily deforested cities
After proclaiming “to hell with this hellish life,” the author of Macunaíma sailed the Amazon and Madeira rivers “before saying enough already.” In his travel-diary-turned-book, emotions overflow and Nature overwhelms
In this interview, Ehuana Yaira talks about the indivisible relationship between the Forest and the female body. The Yanomami artist and writer was the first member of her people to give a public talk in Europe, as part of the series “Rainforest is Female,” held at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
The score and sound design work in tandem to keep your pulse elevated: silence that stretches like a held breath, sudden percussion when the violence lands, and an undercurrent of rustling leaves that acts like a third character—untrustworthy and omnipresent. Visually, the movie favors close, intimate frames during attacks and wider, disorienting shots when the hunters stalk. That visual choreography turns the forest into a labyrinthine antagonist.