Xingu/Terra

Xingu/Terra

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 6, 1981

Runtime

1h 14m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

50%

Original Title

Xingu/Terra

Production Companies

Taba Filmes

Director

Maureen Bisilliat

Description

Directed by the photographer Maureen Bisilliat, the documentary portraits the everyday life in the indigenous village of Mehinaku, in Alto Xingu, showing the planting and harvest of cassava, the fishing, the preparation of the annatto ink, the modeling of the domestic ceramics, the division of tasks between men and women, the work at the collective land, the relationship between parents and children, the marriage ceremony, the exchange with other villages and the great celebration of the Yamuricumã party.