“We wanted to reflect the collective intelligence of the Krahu people” – Liberation

The directors revisit Krahôs's working style, the connections forged over time with the indigenous community of northeastern Brazil and their rejection of exoticism.

Five years later forest song, Brazilian director Rene Nader Misura and Portuguese director João Salaveza signed on buretti flower, A new novel inhabited by the indigenous Krahos community, which is resisting its erasure in northeastern Brazil. The two companions, passing through sad Europe, tell us how two Cupês (Non-native speakers of the Krahu language) search for the right rhythm to create another cinema.

There are many different stories and forms in Buriti flowerWhich leaves a multiple impression, unlike Jungle songthe first fantasy film you've made with the Krahos, has a more linear introductory story. What is the cause of this boom?

Rene Nader Masoura: in Jungle songwe wanted to get closer to the intimate relationship of a young boy from Krahu, to understand the details of his relationships with his community but also with Brazilian society. These are the relationships we wanted to try to capture, because cinema that typically depicts indigenous people—which is generally cinema outside the village, not made by community members from within—doesn't seem like that. At people.