Project type: BIPoC

Oct

2023

Tribal Affairs

Tribal Affairs combines footage of a group of Germans participating in ‘powwows’ where they dress in traditional North American indigenous clothing, dance and chant together with comments from two women from the group Medzeniakonai who view the recorded scenes. The women wonder if these people would accept them as their spiritual mentors and be allies in finding solutions to global environmental problems.

Netherlands 2020
Patricia Werneck Ribas
10:18 min
Baniwa with English subtitles

Short / Docu / Experimental / Video Art

Oct

2023

Negra

“I was about seven years old the first time someone called me Black on the street. I turned around to see who they were talking to, until I realized it was me. That day I understood I was Black, and the laughter it caused among the people nearby made me think being a Black person wasn’t that great.”

“Negra” shows the director in her search of exploring what it means to inhabit Mexico as a black woman. It tells the story of five afro-descendant women from southern Mexico, exposing racism, resistance and processes of self-acceptance, strategies for transcending stereotypes, and the celebration of their identity.

Content Alert: Racism

Trailer

Mexico 2020
Medhin Tewolde Serrano
01:11:44 h
Spanish with English subtitles

Feature / Docu

Oct

2023

La rebelión de las flores

In the year 2019, women from various indigenous nations of Argentina peacefully occupy the Ministry of the Interior in Buenos Aires. There, they advocate for an end to violence in their home territories and emphasize the urgent need to restore reciprocity and solidarity between peoples and nature. Despite the indifference of the state and society, the film also highlights another, more solidary aspect of society.

Trailer

Director’s statement

Argentina 2022
Maria Laura Vásquez
1:20:00 h
Spanish with English subtitles

Feature / Docu

Oct

2023

Mujer de tierra

In the Nahua community of Hueyapan, Puebla, the stories of a generation of women who have resolutely left social boundaries behind come to life. With their intricate embroidery, unyielding spirit, and deep self-awareness, they weave their destinies together to reinvent themselves and chart the course of their own history.

Content Alert: Experiences of domestic violence are addressed.

Trailer

Mexico 2021
Evelyn Mercedes Muñoz Marroquin
15:00 min
Spanish with English subtitles

Short / Docu

Oct

2023

Do Quilombo pra Favela – Alimento para a Resistência Negra

In the Ribeira Valley in southeastern São Paulo, a cooperative of Quilombola farmers is coming together to combat the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. They developed an emergency plan to distribute organically grown food from their traditional farms to vulnerable communities in the Favelas.

Brazil 2022
Manoela Meyer, Roberto Almeida
22:37 min.
Portuguese with English subtitles

Short / Docu

Oct

2023

Vãnh gõ tõ Laklãnõ

An archaeologist, a poet, a preacher and a kujá, a teacher and a rap singer retrace the history of the Laklãnõ/Xokleng people, inhabitants of southern Brazil: the old times of the forest, the near-extinction, the rescue of the language and culture and the placement in the political spotlight.

Content Alert: Colonialist violence is thematized.

Trailer

Brazil 2022
Barbara Pettres, Flávia Person, Walderes Coctá Priprá
25:00 min
Portuguese with English subtitles

Short / Docu

Oct

2023

Mas eu não sou alguém?

In a Brazilian favela (São Paulo), a nine-year-old child tries to understand himself and the universe where he lives. Through adventures with his friends and relatives, Antonio lives the wonders and dangers of the place he was born in.

Content Alert: Racist police violence

Trailer

Brazil 2022
Gabriel Duarte, Daniel Eduardo de Souza
13:00 min
Portuguese with English subtitles

Short / Fiction