The Falling Sky
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En colaboración con el pueblo indígena yanomami de Brasil, El cielo que cae sigue al líder y chamán yanomami Davi Kopenawa en su lucha por devolver el equilibrio al mundo mediante rituales observados de cerca y comentarios mordaces sobre la lógica despiadada de una cultura exterior materialista. La tala ilegal, la extracción de oro y la mezcla mortal de epidemias que estas intrusiones propagan amenazan la existencia de los yanomami. Basándose en una aguda comprensión de las fuerzas geopolíticas, Davi Kopenawa levanta un espejo ante las sociedades capitalistas de "la gente mercancía" y el estilo de vida insostenible de los llamados "países desarrollados" que amenaza la supervivencia de la humanidad en su conjunto.
Screenings
Cinemex Stadium | Sala 4
Teatro Santa Ana
Cast and crew
Director's bio:
Eryk Rocha (born in Brazil in 1978)
graduated in 2002 from the film school in Los Baños, Cuba, where he directed his first feature film ROCHA QUE VOA (Stones in the Sky). The film was selected in Venice, Rotterdam, Locarno and other important festivals, winning the Best Film award in Brazil (It’s All True festival), Argentina and Cuba. In 2004, with the film QUIMERA, he competed for the Palme d’Or for best short film at the Cannes festival. His films were distributed nationally and internationally in cinemas and television channels, as well as on the streaming platforms Netflix, Globoplay and Amazon Prime. Part of his work was acquired by MoMA and was integrated into the museum’s permanent collection.
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha is a Brazilian artist, theater director, performer, filmmaker, researcher and environmental art activist who has worked for more than 10 years with the Brazilian Amazon. She is a partner at Aruac Filmes, an independent film production company, and creator of the Margins Project - On Rivers, Buiúnas and Fireflies, a multi language project dedicated to artistic creation based on listening to the testimony of Brazilian rivers in situations of catastrophe. The scope of this project has already included theater plays (Guerrilla or For Land There Are No Missing Persons) (2015) and Altamira 2042 (2019), feature length and short documentary films, publications, debates, workshops, the Buiunas network, a network between women, rivers and art.