Short film
Cidadão Jatobá
1987 · 14 min
A quiet, respectful look at hands teaching hands, watching old knowledge pass to the young with calm patience.
- Directed by
- Maria Luiza d'Aboim
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Marcos Terena
- Overview
- Two Lawalapiti young men from Alto Xingu learn to build a canoe from the bark of the jatobá tree, a quick and simple technique that leaves the tree still rooted and alive, and that has ceased to be used and is only known by the oldest Lawalapiti men.
- How it feels
- Earnest, warm and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Trauma, family, nature, identity
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Maria Luiza d'Aboim
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Marcos Terena