Zaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo 

Film Communal Screening

Aldira Akai, Indigenous Leader of Sawré Muybu Village

Rilcelia Akai, Indigenous Leader of Sawré Muybu Village

Cacique Juarez, Indigenous Leader & Chief of Sawré Muybu Village

• Indigenous sovereignty in the Amazon and the global responsibility to protect Indigenous lands.
• The battle to defend the Tapajós River from illegal mining and environmental destruction.
• The risks and threats faced by those on the frontlines defending their territories.

Alessandra Munduruku, Indigenous Leader & Environmental Activist

Alessandra Munduruku, Indigenous Leader & Environmental Activist

Beka Munduruku, Indigenous Leader & Founder of Daje Kepap Epy Audiovisual Collective

• Indigenous mobilization confronting legal and political threats to Amazonian territories.
• Cinema and audiovisual storytelling as tools of Indigenous resistance and sovereignty
• The power of Indigenous movements in defending land, rights and collective futures.

Sônia Guajajara, Minister of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil

• The living weight of colonialism on indigenous communities in Brazil
• What it means to hold the fight from inside the government and from the ground at the same time
• A vision for Indigenous peoples and what is our responsibility

Vandria Borari, Borari Artist and Activist

Leila Borari, Co-founder of the Suraras do Tapajós Indigenous Women’s Association

Diego Godinho, Artist and Biologist

• Art as a living practice sustaining Indigenous knowledge and cultural memory.
• Myths, ancestral narratives and cosmologies shaping Indigenous ways of seeing the world.
• How song, image and story carry what cannot be written down

Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN Founder and Executive Director

Secretary Puyr Tembe, Secretary of Indigenous Peoples of the State of Pará 

Célia Xakriabá, Federal Deputy for the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

• Indigenous women on the frontlines of climate justice
• Leadership rooted in kinship, ceremony, and living relationship with land.
• What genuine solidarity asks of the rest of us.