Imbé Gikegü, The Scent of Pequi Fruit
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From the Ashaninka Villages series in the Video in the Villages collection
By Takumã and Maricá Kuikuro
color, 36 min, 2006
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As the dry season comes to an end, it's the time of celebration and merriment in the Alto Xingu. The smell of the damp earth is mixed with the sweet perfume of pequi. But it has not always been like that: if it had not been for a death, the pequi would possibly not exist. Linking the past to the present, Kuikuro filmmakers tell a tale of dangers and pleasures, of sex and betrayal, where men and women, hummingbirds and alligators build a shared world.
Film Festivals, Screenings, Awards Best Short Award Terres En Vues/Land InSIGHTS Montreal First Peoples' Festival, 2007
Green Wave 21st Century European Environment Festival, Bulgaria, 2007
Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, 2007
other films from the Ashaninka Villages series:
New Era
Iauareté, Waterfall of the Jaguars
Kiarãsâ Yõ Sâty, The Agouti's Peanut