08/05/2018 - The film by the Portuguese-Brazilian filmmaking duo, selected in Cannes' Un Certain Regard, portrays an indigenous community in Brazil

There are no spirits or snakes tonight, and the forest around the village is quiet. Fifteen-year-old Ihjãc has had nightmares ever since he lost his father. He is an indigenous Krahô from the north of Brazil. Ihjãc walks into darkness, his sweaty body moves with fright. A distant chant comes through the palm trees. His father's voice calls him to the waterfall: it's time for Ihjãc to organise his father's funerary feast so that his spirit can depart to the village of the dead. The mourning must cease. Denying his duty and in order to escape the process of becoming a shaman, Ihjãc runs away to the city, where he must face the reality of being an indigenous person in contemporary Brazil.

This is the synopsis for The Dead and the Others [+see also:
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