Films:
Pinjawuli: the poison has reached me
Year: 2021 | 2 min
The film is on the border between fiction and documentary, based on a dream of the director, Bih Kezo. The Manoki and Myky peoples know that the beings who share the world with humans are asking us for help, especially the indigenous people, who know the existence of the Mju'u, the mothers of the earth. In the film, the plane chases Bih all over the village, as in reality: aircraft that spray poison on neighboring crops constantly fly over Paredão village, in Brasnorte-MT. Always at the time right after planting, the community feels the poison inside the village, which causes great concern to families, taking into account the growing number of pesticides that have been released in Brazil, especially in the last years.
Directed by: Bih Kezo
Directed by: Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky
the poison reached me
PINJAWULI
Sã'ananakini: You hear me
Year: 2021 | 13 min
The film narrates the life story of the elder Alípio Iranche Xinuli, his childhood as an orphan, his departure to the Jesuit mission in Utiariti, his marriage and his return to the indigenous land, where he opened a new village and raised a large family. From a conversation with his mother, Valmir Xinuli, Alípio's grandson and director of the documentary, proposes a conversation with his descendants, remembering his walk in this land, his teachings, and funny episodes with his grandfather, who died at the end of 2020 of covid-19, the only fatal victim of this virus in the Manoki people.
Directed by: Valmir Xinuli
Directed by: Ijã Mytyli Collective of Cinema Manoki and Myky / LISA-USP
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Piny Pyta: the strength of our medicines
Year: 2021 | 20 min
An account of the resistance of the Manoki people during the pandemic, through the use of traditional medicines and other strategies to deal with a disease that says a lot about the way non-indigenous people relate to animals. Filmed and edited in 2021 by Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky in Paredão village.
Directed by: Bih Kezo and Cileuza Jemjusi
Directed by: Ijã Mytyli Collective of Cinema Manoki and Myky / LISA-USP
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The strength of our medicines
Xipi Kaja
Year: 2021 | 20 min
An account of the resistance of the Manoki people during the pandemic, through the consumption of healthy foods as a way to face COVID 19. Directed by Tipuici Manoki, the short was filmed and edited in 2021 by Coletivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky, in the villages of Cravari, Treze de Maio and Asa Branca.
Directed by: Marta Tipuici Manoki
Directed by: Ijã Mytyli Collective of Cinema Manoki and Myky / LISA-USP
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Ulapa Taka'a (known child)
Year: 2021 | 20 min
It started as a joke that turned into a playful filming exercise in which the camera, protagonists and other characters playfully interact and introduce their community. Through the eyes of four girls between 11 and 12 years old, we are taken to know the fields, health center, school, soccer field and other spaces in the Paredão village, in the municipality of Brasnorte - MT.
Directed by: Bih Kezo
Directed by: Ijã Mytyli Collective of Cinema Manoki and Myky / LISA-USP
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Myky community against covid-19
Year: 2020| 6 min
So far, even though the coronavirus has not reached the families of the Myky people, in northwest Mato Grosso, the population has been mobilizing to avoid the disease. A gate was built on the road that connects the territory to the cities, trips to the municipality have decreased, the elders take medicine and pray for their protection, some families hold fishing camps to distance themselves even further from the dangers. A current record made by Typju Myky of a difficult context, especially for indigenous peoples, and which it is hoped to overcome in the near future.
Directed by: Typju Myky and Minã Myky
Directed by: Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky and Rede CineFlecha
Ini Myky manãnu pänãtã - Building the myky house
Year: 2020|12 min
Synopsis: In a myky village, one of the tasks that must be carried out with the collaboration of the entire community is the construction of Ini, a large communal house. This short documentary, the first made exclusively by an indigenous production team, intimately narrates the resumption of this building by the youngest. At the end, a big party celebrates the different people and relationships involved in the construction of this maloca, which is central to the ritual life of the Myky people, inhabitant of the Brazilian Amazon, in the northwest region of the state of Mato Grosso.
Directed by: Typju Myky
Directed by: Ijã Mytyli Collective of Cinema Manoki and Myky / LISA-USP
The Makakoxi Rings
Year: 2020 | 7 min
Tucum coconut is an element widely used by indigenous artisans to make various artifacts in their daily lives. Three young Myky women record for the first time the process of making the tucum rings with Mãkakoxi, a skilled artisan from the Japuíra village, located in the Brazilian Amazon, in the northwest region of the state of Mato Grosso.
Directed by: Kamtinuwy Myky, Mãnynu Myky and Takarauku Myky
Directed by: Ijã Mytyli Collective of Cinema Manoki and Myky / LISA-USP
The spirits only understand our language
Year: 2019 | 5min
Only six elders of the Manoki population in the Brazilian Amazon still speak the indigenous language, an imminent risk of losing the means by which they communicate with their spirits. Despite this being a difficult subject, the younger ones decide to narrate in images and words their version of this long history of relations with non-indigenous people, talking about their pain, challenges and desires. Despite all the difficulties of the current context, the struggle and hope echo in several dimensions of the short film, indicating that “the Manoki language will live!”.
Directed by: Cileuza Jemjusi, Robert Tamuxi and Valdeilson Jolasi Directed by: Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki and Myky / LISA-USP
weaving our ways
Year: 2019 | 6 min
Synopsis: Only six elders of the Manoki population in the Brazilian Amazon still speak the indigenous language, an imminent risk of losing this important dimension of their ways of existence. Determined to resume their language with the elders, the younger ones decide to narrate their challenges and desires in images and words. From the analogy with the fragility of cotton that becomes strong thread to support the weight in the hammock, Marta Tipuici talks about the resistance of her people, her relationship with her grandmother and the hope that they will speak their language again in the new generations.
Directed by: Cledson Kajoli, Jackson Xinunxi and Marta Tipuici
Directed by: Ijã Mytyli Collective of Cinema Manoki and Myky / LISA-USP
Ãjãí: Myky and Manoki's head game
Year: 2019 | 49 minutes
Synopsis: Ãjãí is a fun game in which only the players' heads can touch the ball. This practice, shared by few indigenous peoples in the world, is present among the Myky and Manoki populations of Mato Grosso, who speak a language of an isolated linguistic family. Young indigenous people of the Myky people decide to film and edit their game for the first time, to publicize it outside the villages. But to organize this great party, your young bosses will face some challenges ahead.
Directed by: Typju Myky and André Lopes
Realization: LISA-USP / Colectivo Ijã Mytyli de Cinema Manoki e Myky
Year: 2013| 24 min
Synopsis: The Manoki indigenous people live in northwest Mato Grosso and one of their productive activities is the sale of pequi on the road that passes through their land. During a video workshop, young people decide to show the world a little bit of their villages and the process of collecting and selling this fruit. Instigated by the possibility of filming and being the protagonists themselves, they go looking for the old people in an attempt to find out if there is any story about the origin of the pequi.
Directed by: João Paulo Kajoli and André Lopes
Directed by: Ijã Mytyli Collective of Cinema Manoki and Myky / LISA-USP
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The Baptism of the Manoki Boys
Year: 2009|114 min
In 2009, after 14 years without performing the male initiation ritual into adulthood, due to the message received in a dream, the possibility of gathering a large group of boys and the opportunity to record the event, the Manoki decided to perform the ceremony. This was the first experience in which the indigenous youth themselves began to record their images. This moment of recovery was very important for the people, who returned to perform similar ceremonies in 2014 and 2018.
Editing: André Lopes and Manoki Men
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