Conversations in Guarani: Forgotten Traditions

In a small indigenous tribe, pregnant women have to choose between having their child with their midwife or with a doctor in town. The village's shaman organizes the Mitã ritual at the praying house (Opy) where he interprets their dreams of pregnancy and advises them through a ritual of washing their bellies and feet with ashes. Completely spoken in Guarani, a Brazilian indigenous language.

  • Hudson Moura
    Director
    Os Arquivos Secretos de Amylton
  • Ricardo Sá
    Director
    Procurando Madalena, O cordel dos Atingidos, Assim Caminha Regência
  • Hudson Moura
    Writer
    Os Arquivos Secretos de Amylton
  • Ricardo Sá
    Writer
    Procurando Madalena, O cordel dos Atingidos, Assim Caminha Regência
  • Hudson Moura
    Producer
    Os Arquivos Secretos de Amylton
  • Ricardo Sá
    Producer
    Procurando Madalena, O cordel dos Atingidos, Assim Caminha Regência
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Conversações em Guarani: Tradições Esquecidas
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    December 14, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Brazil
  • Country of Filming:
    Brazil
  • Language:
    Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Hudson Moura, Ricardo Sá

Hudson MOURA is an Assistant Professor of Politics and Cinema at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University and an affiliated faculty of the Latin American Studies program at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on transnational films and media and their attempt to depict displacement experiences, such as voyage, migration, exile, diaspora, and the refugees. His teaching and publications also include intermediality, new technologies, documentary, Latin American and Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures. He is a member of the Centre for Memory and Testimony Studies (Wilfrid Laurier University) and CRIALT (Université de Montréal). Recently, he completed a short-documentary on Brazilian indigenous culture entitled Conversations in Guarani: Forgotten Traditions.

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