Thu 24 Apr
|London
Cine Brazil presents - Indigenous April- The Wind Blows the Border
We are really excited to be back to FARRS for another screening, marking Abril Indígena (Indigenous April), a month of major popular mobilizations of the Indigenous movement.
Time and Location
24 Apr 2025, 19:00 – 23:00
London, 17, 19 Dalston Ln, London E8 3DF, UK
About the event
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This time we will bring The Wind Blows the Border, 2022, by Laura Faerman and Marina Weis - At the heart of Brazilian agribusiness, Indigenous teacher Alenir Aquino Ximendes fights for her community's right to their ancestral lands. On the opposite side of this dispute is the heiress of these lands - Luana Ruiz Silva, a powerful anti-Indigenous lawyer.
We will also be screening another short film in partnership with Mov Festival, The International Student Film Festival of Pernambuco, Brazil. ⭐
📽 The film: This story takes place on the violent and devastated border between Brazil and Paraguay, in the Ñande Ru Marangatu Indigenous Territory - land disputed by Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous people, who have inhabited the region for at least 1500 years, and farmers who arrived there in the 1940s. Starting from this dispute, the film closely follows the growth of ruralist political power and its ties…