There are no spirits or snakes tonight and the forest around the village is quiet. Fifteen year old Ihjãc has nightmares 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 to organize the funerary feast so the spirit can depart to the dead´s village.
The mourning must cease. Denying his duty and in order to escape a crucial process of becoming a shaman, Ihjãc runs away to the city. Far from his people and culture, he faces the reality of being an indigenous in contemporary Brazil.
- Cannes Film Festival – Un Certain Regard – Special Jury Prize
- Rio International Film Festival – Official Selection – Best Direction, Best Cinematography
- La Orquídea Film Festival – Official Selection – Best First Latin American Feature Film
- Mar del Plata Film Festival – International Competition – Special Jury Award
- Mostra Internacional de São Paulo – New Directors Competition
- Torino Film Festival – TFF DOC Competition
- Viennale – Vienna International Film Festival – Official Selection
- New Horizons International Film Festival – International Competition
- Vancouver International Film Festival – Official Selection
- Gent International Film Festival – Official Selection
- BFI London Film Festival – Official Selection
- Gijón International Film Festival – Official Selection
Portuguese, born in 1984 in Lisbon (Portugal).
Graduated from The National Film and Theater Academy (ESTC) in Portugal, and Universidad del Cine – Buenos Aires. His feature debut "Mountain" world premiered at the Venice Film Festival – Critics Week 2015. It came on the heels of a trilogy of short films: "Rafa" (Berlinale Golden Bear 2012) and "Arena" (Palme d’Or at the Festival de Cannes 2009) and "Cerro Negro". In recent years he was back in the Berlinale with the short-films "High Cities of Bone and Russa". "The Dead and the Others", co-directed with Renée Nader Messora, is his second feature.
- The Buriti Flower – 2023
- The Dead and the Others – 2018
- Russa – 2018 – Short film
- Altas Cidades de Osadas – 2017 – Short film
- Montanha – 2015
- Cerro Negro – 2012 – Short film
- Rafa – 2012 – Short film
- Strokkur – 2011 – Short film
- Arena – 2009 – Short film
Brazilian, born in 1979 in Sao Paulo (Brazil).
She is a graduate in Cinematography from the Universidad del Cine – Buenos Aires. For fifteen years she worked as an assistant director in Brazil, Argentina and Portugal. In 2009 Renée Nader Messora met the Krahô indigenous people. Since then, she is working with the community, participating in the mobilisation of a local collective of Krahô filmmakers. Their work is focused in the use of cinema as a tool for self-determination and the strengthening of cultural identity. The Dead and the Others is her debut as a director.
- The Dead and the Others – 2018
Henrique Ihjãc Krahô
Raene Kôtô Krahô
DOP: Renée Nader Messora
Editor: João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora, Edgar Feldman
Sound Design: Pablo Lamar
Producer: Ricardo Alves Jr., Thiago Macêdo Correia, João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora
Production Companies: Entrefilmes, Karõ Filmes, Material Bruto
World Sales: Luxbox
