Ko'eyene Kino

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Join us for a screening celebrating the power of Indigenous culture through cinema. This special event features a curated selection of short films by Indigenous artists participating in the Ko'eyene Indigenous arts program at Festival Theaterformen. The screening will be introduced by the artists, providing insights into their creative processes and the themes of their works. Moderation by Jamille Pinheiro Dias.

Ko'eyene Kino is an event in co-operation with Braunschweig International Film Festival.

Featured films:

The Word Became Flesh - Ziel Karapotó (6:28)

The European invasion in the Americas has left many scars. Ziel Karapotó uses his body to denounce five centuries of colonization and its consequences on the native people.

We Are Living Borders - Gustavo Caboco Wapichana and Roseane Cadete (11:16)

We Are Living Borders examines the history of the Bloody Beach Revolt, which took place in Roraima, in the Brazilian Amazon in 1790, when Indigenous people who rebelled against the Portuguese occupation of their lands were massacred.

Children of the Corn - Denilson Baniwa (11:50)

A short film by Indigenous Brazilian artist Denilson Baniwa. The title makes parodic reference to the 1984 horror film by Stephen King, Children of the Corn, conveying the message that capitalism's relationship with nature, especially in Brazil, is a horror story that especially affects Indigenous peoples.

Bakish Rao: Plant Resistance - Denilson Baniwa and Comando Matico (16:09)

Bakish Rao: Plant Resistance is a sci-fi short film by Amazonian Indigenous artists Denilson Baniwa and Comando Matico that speculates on plantations and the future of planet Earth from the perspective of plants. As a collaborative experiment bringing together artistic languages, scientific debates, and Indigenous cosmologies. The film proposes a multispecies speculation to address forms of resistance to the oil palm monoculture and ecological homogenization more broadly.

Fertile Land: Véxoa and Contemporary Indigenous Art at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo - Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Débora McDowell (22:51)

 Fertile land: Véxoa and contemporary Indigenous art at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo presents a record of the opening of the first exhibition dedicated to Indigenous art in one of the most important art museums in Brazil, founded in 1905. Curated by researcher Naine Terena, “Véxoa: We Know” brings together 23 artists/collectives from different regions of Brazil, bringing paintings, sculptures, objects, videos, photographs, installations, and performance. The exhibition opened on October 31, 2020.

Paola - Ziel Karapotó (16:00)

A heartfelt story of reunion and healing as two friends from the Karapotó Indigenous territory reconnect in Recife.