Inspired by seeing her young niece, who is naturally attracted to her culture, Through the Dance is a short documentary showing Youth’s Impact on Traditions, as simple as how the young generations, even elders, would see and copy when they see things.
Seeing Richella’s spirit in performing and also promoting Dayak Bahau culture gives hope to Noveni (the filmmaker), who’s bothered by the modernization and fear that the culture will be left out and inspired her to make this short documentary to spread the message into Indigenous Peoples around the world with a tagline we see, we copy. In the film, Richella performs a couple of traditional dances in various events wearing her traditional attire and, later on, having conversations with an Indigenous Activist-Ding Hibau, in trying to understand why her hobby is actually making an impact on her people.
This film shows the Khisetje people moving from their village to a more distant place because of the soya plantation and its poison that threatens their lives, their plants, and their projects like rivers, so the Khisetje people got together and decided to open a new village to the interior of the forest fleeing from the poison (agrochemical).
Guided by the ancestral strength of Karo Sakaybu, the greatest warrior and creator of the Tapajós River and the Munduruku people, Chief Juarez denounces the threats to life posed by the invasions of loggers and miners in the Sawré Muybu territory, while uniting his people in the fight for the demarcation of the territory.
Inspired by seeing her young niece, who is naturally attracted to her culture, Through the Dance is a short documentary showing Youth's Impact on Traditions, as simple as how the young generations, even elders, would see and copy when they see things.
The story is told with the Guajajara environmental defenders, showing the complexity of the struggle after so many land defenders were murdered by invaders in the Amazon. The role of the protectors in the Guajajara community goes beyond climate action, bringing together the protection of standing forests with the conservation of traditional knowledge and the ongoing fight for identity and survival.
We are Waorani, we've lived on this land for thousands of years. We take care of our jungle, water, land, air, ourselves, the animals - we are like the guardians of the jungle. Today with the arrival of multinational companies men and women decide to take a fight to protect their life and conserve the environment.
Grandma Lago has lived for more than 84,000 years in what is now Tzutujil and Kaqchikel land in Guatemala, a grandmother who nurtures and gives life to the land and her grandchildren. Time has passed and the grandmother faces oblivion and abandonment. Ri Ati't doesn't need us to save her, she regenerates herself. She needs us to listen to her.
In the A'i Cofán community of Sinangoe there is an ancestral practice of taking Yocó, with this we recharge ourselves with energy for the day to day activities, particularly for the surveillance exercise carried out by the Indigenous Guard.
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