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Travessias 2022 - This Land is Our Land! (Nh yãg m yõg hãm: essa terra é nossa!) [Hybrid]
May 21 at 4:30pm
$13 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
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(Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Cangucu & Roberto Romero, Brazil, 2020, 70 min, in Portuguese with English subtitles)
This Land is Our Land! is a powerful and urgent profile of the Maxakali or Tikmuun, a Brazilian indigenous group struggling with the impacts of deforestation and white vigilante violence. Threaded through with folklore and ancient wisdom, the film implores the viewer to remember that The earth is our kin!
Its Tikmuun subjects wander through a landscape transformed by agriculture: trees replaced with cattle feed, ponds no longer hospitable to fish, roads overtaken by native plants, and fields cordoned off with barbed wire. Even the limits of their reserve have been encroached upon in recent years. As they walk familiar, primordial paths, they pray that the land will one day belong to them and the yamiyxop spirits once again.
Animated by raw anger and resentment, they also decry a double standard where murders against Tikmuun go unpunished while they are over-penalized for petty crimes. Tense interactions with hostile white strangers are evidence of pervasive prejudice. But as This Land is Our Land! powerfully demonstrates, the Maxakali remain defiant in the face of colonization, determined to tell their stories. They will continue to chant in unison, This land is our land!
*** Public safety notice ***
NWFF patrons will be required to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them. To be admitted, patrons ages 5+ will also be required to present either proof of COVID-19 vaccination OR a negative result from a COVID-19 test administered within the last 48 hours.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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