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Searching for Makunaima

Searching for Makunaima

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 19, 2020

Runtime

1h 24m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Por onde anda Makunaíma?

Director

Rodrigo Séllos

Description

Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction. The film begins with Makunaima, one of the founding myths of the native people from the border between Brazil-Venezuela-Guiana, first captured in the writings of the German ethnographer Koch-Grünberg at the beginning of the 1910s. With interviews in Portuguese, German, Spanish, and in the indigenous languages Macuxi and Taurepang, Searching for Macunaima reclaims this amazing character who represents Brazil in many ways (from literature to cinema to theatre) and remains relevant to date.