4K | 2021-2022 | Color | Fiction-Animation | 75'

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Director: Tânia Anaya

Editor: Fabian Remy

Co-production: Anaya (Brazil) | Apus (Peru)

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> in post-production

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Markets:
Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes

Annecy MIFA Pitches

Ventana Sur

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Nimuendajú – “the one who has conquered his place into the world”.

Animated film based on the true story of the German ethnologist Curt Nimuendajú, who lived in Brazil from 1903 until his death. He dedicated his life to a passion for Brazilian indigenous cultures, being adopted and baptized by various peoples with whom he lived, including the Guarani, Apinayé, Canela-Ronkokamekra and Tikuna, portrayed in the film.

The survival of these groups and the preservation of their culture became the goal of a relentless personal struggle. Aware of the evils and firepower of his opponents - the landowners, the Brazilian government and public opinion on indigenous peoples - Curt Nimuendajú acts, provokes and leads actions to defuse the attacks of the hostile world that surrounds him.

He died in the Amazon in 1945, under circumstances that are still mysterious today.

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