BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:27633@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:🎬 Brazil Unfiltered: Piripkura (2017) DTSTAMP:20260919T204236Z DTSTART:20261023T180000Z DESCRIPTION:Brazil Unfiltered [https://filmhuiscavia.nl/programma/brazil-un filtered] comes\nback from 1 to 31 October with a special curation of docu mentary films to\ncontextualise the presidential elections taking place in Brazil this month.\nCentred around territorial struggles and the frontlin es of resistance\, the\nprogramme starts with a masterpiece from the late Eduardo Coutinho\, followed by\na sequence of 3 films set in the Amazon an d a closure event + screening about\nclimate resilience and ecological far ming.\n\n\nPIRIPKURA\nRenata Terra\, Mariana Oliva\, Bruno Jorge | 2017 | Brazil | 81’ | EN subtitles\n\nPiripkura is the chronicle of an expedition in the Amazonian habitat of the\nnomadic Piripkura ethnic group’s last re maining members\, who can only have their\nterritory protected if there is proof they are still living there. Two of only\nthree of them are known t o still live in this area. Every two years\, a team of\ngovernmental worke rs trek into the jungle for weeks in search of them. Their\nmost important possession is a torch that was lit in 1998 and has remained so\never sinc e. The area where they live is encircled by farms and sawmills\, whose\nal most inevitable expansion is taking place through violent means.\n\nThe fi lm sheds light on the tragedy befalling indigenous Amazon people: the\nsys tematic violence used against them is a constant menacing presence. Despit e\nthe impressive resilience and tenacity of the last of the Piripkura\, a n\ninevitable question hangs in the air: how long can it last?\n\nWinner o f the Amsterdam Human Rights Award at IDFA 2017.\n\nTRAILER [https://www.y outube.com/watch?v=ebWSK3Ptwj8]\n\n  URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/brazil-unfiltered-piripkura-2017 GEO:52.381974;4.8703107 LOCATION:Filmhuis Cavia - Van Hallstraat 52-1\, 1051 HH Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-west,documentary,film,jungle,live,staatsliedenbuurt X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Brazil Unfiltered comes back from 1 to 31 October with a special curation of d ocumentary films to contextualise the presidential elections taking place in Brazil this month. Centred around territorial struggles and the frontli nes of resistance, the programme starts with a masterpiece from the late E duardo Coutinho, followed by a sequence of 3 films set in the Amazon and a closure event + screening about climate resilience and ecological farming .



PIRIPKURA
Renata Terra, Mariana O liva, Bruno Jorge | 2017 | Brazil | 81’ | EN subtitles

Piripkur a is the chronicle of an expedition in the Amazonian habitat of the nomadic Piripkura ethnic group’s last remaining members, w ho can only have their territory protected if there is proof they are stil l living there. Two of only three of them are known to still live in this area. Every two years, a team of governmental workers trek into the jungle for weeks in search of them. Their most important possession is a torch t hat was lit in 1998 and has remained so ever since. The area where they li ve is encircled by farms and sawmills, whose almost inevitable expansion i s taking place through violent means.

The film sheds light on the t ragedy befalling indigenous Amazon people: the systematic violence used ag ainst them is a constant menacing presence. Despite the impressive resilie nce and tenacity of the last of the Piripkura, an inevitable question hang s in the air: how long can it last?

Winner of the Amsterdam Human R ights Award at IDFA 2017.

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