Short film
Fishing with Timbó
2023 · 10 min
A short, quietly absorbing documentary that blends myth and lived reality into a gentle act of cultural reclamation.
- Directed by
- Aida Harika Yanomami, Edmar Tokorino Yanomami
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- An eye-opening he said/she said perspective on timbó fishing, a traditional practice of the Indigenous Yanomami people that involves the entire community and a vine used to stun fish, seamlessly blends preservation documentary, origin myth, magic realism and the reality of mining and economic threats to Yanomami culture in this formally inventive reclamation.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Environment, trauma, family, 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
- Aida Harika Yanomami, Edmar Tokorino Yanomami
- Genres
- Documentary