Iauaretê, Waterfall of the Jaguars
From the Ashaninka Villages series in the Video in the Villages collection
By Vincent Carelli
color, 48 min, 2006
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A myth illustrated on the stones of a waterfall, the reconstruction of a great communal hut through the attempt to recover objects kept for years in a museum in Manaus. In Iauaretê, Waterfall of the Jaguars, the Tariano Indians of the Northwestern Amazon, after decades of missionary catechism, decide to make a cultural record for future generations.
Film Festivals, Screenings & Awards Terres En Vues/Land InSIGHTS Montreal First Peoples' Festival, 2007
International Ethnographic Film Festival of the Royal Anthropological Institute, UK, 2007
other films from the Ashaninka Villages series:
Imbé Gikegü, The Scent of Pequi Fruit
New Era
Kiarãsâ Yõ Sâty, The Agouti's Peanut