The Brazilian film The Buriti Flower / Crowrã by Renée Nader Messora and João Salaviza has just been announced as the winner of the Ensemble Prize in the Un Certain Regard competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where it had its world premiere.
Starring Francisco Hyjnõ , Luzia Cruwakwyj and Debora Sodré, the film follows Patpro, who through her child’s eyes, will go through three periods of the history of her Indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest. Tirelessly persecuted, but guided by their ancestral rites, their love of nature and their fight to preserve their freedom, the Krahô never stop inventing new forms of resistance.
Messora and Salaviza continue their relationship with the Krahô community from the Amazonia that was started with their debut feature The Dead and the Others, which also premiered in the Un Certain Regard competition at Cannes, in 2018.
