Pieter Van Eecke

Holding Up The Sky

Belgium, Netherlands, Brazil 2023
80 min • Yanomami, Portugese, English. English subtitles.
K12
Theme: Resistance
18.11.2023 | Time 19:00 | Venue: Tapio 4 | BUY TICKET

What happens when the sky falls down?

An old Yanomami belief says that if the shamans stop dancing and life in the rainforest loses its balance, the sky will fall down and crush everything beneath it. Still, gold diggers pollute the rivers, shamans die, the rainforest perishes, and the earth warms up, and now the Brazilian president has announced that industries can settle in the Amazon. 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 and land against an endless colonization. Do the Whites understand that the fall from the sky will not only crush the Yanomami?

Belgian director Pieter Van Eecke takes us to the heart of the Amazon rainforest where native populations are forced to fight against human cruelty and recklessness.

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