Cannes Film Festival 2024, Melbourne International Film Festival 2024
Best International Feature Documentary, Guanajuato International Film Festival 2024
Until the early 1970s, the indigenous Yanomami and Watoriki Amazonian tribes lived in relative isolation. However, during Brazil's military dictatorship, a highway was built across their territory, devastating the landscape and opening it up to resource extraction companies. Narrated by Yanomami shaman and leader Davi Kopenawa, this breathtaking documentary traces his indigenous amazonian community’s preparations for a time-worn funeral rite said to hold up the sky, a ceremony that also galvanises them in the battle to defend their homeland against illegal gold mining.
Eryk Rocha is a filmmaker from Brazil. His films have played and won awards at festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, Venice, Locarno, and Rotterdam. Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha is a Brazilian filmmaker and researcher, whose work has been presented at Wiener Festwochen, Festival d'Automne and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. The Falling Sky is her debut feature.
Rediance Films
