Martírio

Martyrdom

Vincent Carelli, Tita, Ernesto de Carvalho

Brazil

2016

162'

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Description

The great march to reclaim the sacred Guarani Kaiowá territories as seen through footage shot by Vincent Carelli, who recorded the birthplace of the movement in the 1980s. Twenty years later and moved by the repeated reports of massacres, Carelli seeks out the origins of this genocide, a conflict of disproportionate forces: the peaceful and obstinate insurgency of the dispossessed Guarani Kaiowá against the powerful apparatus of agribusiness.

Awards and festivals

- Brasilia Film Festival - Best Feature Film (Audience Jury Award), Special Jury Prize and Marco Antonio Guimarães Award (2016)
- São Paulo International Film Festival - Best Brazilian Documentary (Audience Award), Spcine Award for Best Documentary in Brazilian Cinema (2016)
- Janela International Film Festival of Recife - Best Film and Best Image (2016)
- Mar del Plata International Film Festival - Best Feature Film in Latin American Competition, Best Technical Directing and Social Issues in a film in Latin American Competition (SICA) and Special Mention (SIGNIS) (2016)
- FICA - International Environmental Film Festival - Best Feature Film and Cora Coralina Trophy for the Best Film at FICA (2017)

Biography of the director

Vincent Carelli
In 1986, the filmmaker and indigenist Vincent Carelli created the Video nas Aldeias Project, an institution that supports the struggles of indigenous peoples for the purpose of strengthening their identities and territorial and cultural heritage through audiovisual resources. Since then, Carelli has produced a series of 16 documentaries about the methods and results of this work, which have been shown worldwide. One of his first films from 1993, A Arca dos Zo’é (Meeting Ancestors) earned awards at several festivals, including the 16th Tokyo Video Festival and Cinéma du Réel. In 2009, Carelli released Corumbiara, winner of the 37th Festival of Gramado, about the massacre of isolated Indians in the state of Rondônia (Brazil). Corumbiara is the first film in an ongoing trilogy that brings Carelli's own testimony about emblematic cases experienced during 40 years of the indigenous movement in Brazil. Martírio is the second film in this series, which will end with the completion of the film Adeus, Capitão! (Farewell, Captain!), a work in progress.

Ernesto de Carvalho
Ernesto de Carvalho is a filmmaker, anthropologist and photographer. For the last 10 years he has been running video workshops among different indigenous communities in Brazil, all tied to the Video nas Aldeias Project. Always in collaborative engagement, he photographed The Master and Divino (2013), by Tiago Campos; co-directed with Ariel Ortega, Patricia Ferreira and Vincent Carelli Guarani Exile (2011), and edited I’ve Already Become an Image (2009) by Zezinho Yube, in addition to several other award-winning documentaries.

Tita
Tita is a filmmaker and video editor. Among her major works as an editor are the feature Avenida Brasília Formosa and the short film As Aventuras de Paulo Bruscky, both directed by Gabriel Mascaro; Balsa, a medium-length film directed by Marcelo Pedroso; and the video installations O Peixe, O Levante, 4.000 disparos and Pacífico, all directed by artist Jonathas de Andrade. Since 2009, Tita has actively collaborated with the Video nas Aldeias Project, where she’s been working on video editing and video workshops among several indigenous peoples in Brazil. Her most recent work at the institution was The Native’s Brazil: An Open Archive, a video installation conceived for the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, in collaboration with Ana Carvalho and Vincent Carelli.