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HOLDING UP THE SKY HOLDING UP THE SKY
- 01:20
Belgium, the Netherlands, Brazil 2023
Selection : Eco Dox
Director: Pieter Van Eecke
Writer: Pieter Van Eecke, with Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, Dário Vitório Kopenawa Yanomami
Cinematography: Johan Legraie
Editing: Dieter Diependaele
Soundtrack: David Poltrock
Production: Clin d’oeil films, in co-production with Een van de jongens
Producer: Hanne Phlypo, Co-producers: Hasse van Nunen, Renko Douze
If the shamans stop dancing and life in the rainforest loses its balance, the sky will fall and crush everything beneath it. This wisdom is passed on in the Brazilian Amazon by every generation of Yanomami. But gold diggers pollute the rivers, shamans die, the rainforest perishes and the earth warms up. Davi Kopenawa, shaman, chief, and well-known spokesperson for the Yanomami, has been fighting these threats for more than 40 years. Time and again, he travels the world defending his people against endless colonization. Do the Whites understand that the fall from the sky will not only crush the Yanomami?
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Selection : Eco Dox
Director: Pieter Van Eecke
Writer: Pieter Van Eecke, with Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, Dário Vitório Kopenawa Yanomami
Cinematography: Johan Legraie
Editing: Dieter Diependaele
Soundtrack: David Poltrock
Production: Clin d’oeil films, in co-production with Een van de jongens
Producer: Hanne Phlypo, Co-producers: Hasse van Nunen, Renko Douze
