Synopsis

The Paiter Suruí went through most of 20th century isolated from the rest of the world. Perpera, our protagonist, was 20 years old when his people made first contact with the white man in 1969. Until that moment, Perpera was a powerful shaman, a carrier of the ancestral knowledge of his people. But, with the white man came evangelical missionaries; they brought the word of a new god, and claimed that shamanism was of the devil.

Perpera was forced to abandon his ancestral practices. The Ex-Shaman knows that the spirits of the forests are upset. He has stopped praying to them and playing his sacred instruments. Afraid, Perpera sleeps with the lights on, “before they would consult the shaman, now they just take aspirin,” he says.

However, this new scenario is at odds with the nature and culture of the Suruí village. Soon enough, events put into question the new dynamics of power among the Suruí people. When death haunts the Paiter Suruí, the power to speak to the spirits again becomes necessary, and the spirits do not speak to common people. 


 

International Awards

68th Berlin International Film Festival - Alemanha (2018)
· Special mention of the jury of the Original Documentary Award

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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