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Brazil’s ‘Nimuendajú’ Makes Annecy Debut As Director Tania Anaya Underlines Ongoing Fight for Indigenous Peoples’ Freedom
Tania Anaya's debut 'Nimuendajú' explores Indigenous struggles via Curt Nimuendajú's life, blending animation and ethnographic storytelling.
Ahead of sharing her film with Annecy’s audience, Variety spoke with director Tania Anaya about the experience of creating such a feature, a journey thirteen years in the making. To quote Eisenstein: “How must I write so that the man, no matter who he may be, shall emerge from the pages of the story about him with that strength of physical palpability of his existence, with that cogency of his half-imaginary reality, with which I see and feel him?” The legacy of Bolsonaro’s far-right government, from 2019 to 2022, still has a strong impact and leaves its mark in arsons, murders of Indigenous leaders and land invasions by miners and loggers.
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