🗓 Thursday 3 December | Doors 18:00 | Screening 19:00
📍 Farr’s School of Dancing, 17 Dalston Lane, London E8 3DF
⏱ Running time: approx. 90 min | All ages | English subtitles
For five centuries, Indigenous land in Brazil has been seized: first by colonisers, then by ranchers, miners, developers and the city itself. Before 1500, millions of people lived across what is now Brazil. Today around 1.7 million Indigenous people, from more than 300 peoples, survive what colonisation tried to finish.
The 1988 Constitution promised that every Indigenous territory would be officially recognised within five years. More than three decades later, that promise is still unfulfilled. In 2023, agribusiness interests pushed the “marco temporal”, a legal thesis that would only recognise land Indigenous peoples physically occupied on the day the Constitution was signed. That excludes the land they had already been driven from. The Supreme Court rejected it, and Congress tried to revive it anyway.
Indigenous peoples aren’t waiting for permission. Across Brazil, they are carrying out retomadas, taking back their land by returning to it. Many others have been pushed into cities, where they keep their culture alive in neighbourhoods built over buried rivers.
These two films follow these. Across the northeast, the Kariri-Xocó map the territory stolen from them and prepare to take it back.
Programme (EN):
As Far as the Eye Can See
Dir. Alice Villela & Hidalgo Romero, Brazil, 2025, Documentary, 77 min
The Kariri-Xocó were forced to hide their language, knowledge and sacred rituals just to survive colonisation. Now three generations travel together, armed with cameras, drones, pipes, headdresses and maracas, to map the territory stolen from them. This road movie is a rehearsal for taking it back.
Programa (BR):
Até Onde a Vista Alcança (SP)
Documentário, 77′, Livre, 2025, Campinas/SP. Direção: Alice Villela e Hidalgo Romero
Três gerações de indígenas Kariri-Xocó se unem em uma expedição de reconhecimento do território memorial desse povo, roubado ao longo dos dolorosos séculos de colonização. Sua língua, seus conhecimentos e até mesmo seus rituais sagrados foram ocultados como estratégia de sobrevivência. Agora, munidos de câmeras, drones, cachimbos, cocares e maracas, eles percorrem os marcos geográficos de seu território em um road movie que é a preparação para novas retomadas.
