Four Shorts & Q&A with Indigenous filmmaker Olinda Tupinambá and artist Glicéria Tupinambá.

Brazil is home to more than 1.7 million Indigenous people across 391 peoples, 295 languages, and six biomes. Yet typically in the global imagination, Indigenous Brazil is synonymous with the Amazon. This event challenges that narrative – bringing together four shorts from Indigenous filmmakers from two of Brazil’s other climate-crucial biomes: the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado.

The Atlantic Forest, situated on Brazil’s east coast, was the first to be colonised and now retains a fraction of its original cover, while the Cerrado – Brazil’s cradle of waters – feeds the rivers that sustain the Amazon. Culture, territory and land are inseparable for Indigenous peoples; their identity indivisible from the seeds they sow, plants they harvest, and biodiversity they protect – these films share their stories on their own terms and from their perspective.

The screening is followed by a Q&A with internationally renowned Indigenous filmmaker Olinda Tupinambá and artist Glicéria Tupinambá, chaired by Dr Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Director of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Dr Carolina Machado Oliveira, documentary filmmaker and Senior Lecturer in Factual at Bournemouth University.

Thutalinãnsu (dir. Helena Corezomaé and Suyani Terena, Mato Grosso, Brazil, 2025, 19 min)

This documentary follows Indigenous women from the Terena, Paresi, Nambikwara and Manoki peoples, as, through their association, they organise to defend their territories and waters in a fragile transition zone between Brazil’s Cerrado biome and the Amazon.

Aguyjevete Avaxi’i (dir. Kerexu Martim, São Paulo, Brazil, 2023, 20 min)

This documentary celebrates the revival of traditional maize planting among the Guarani M’bya people of Kalipety village, outside São Paulo, on land once left dry and degraded by decades of eucalyptus monoculture.

Mango with Salt (Tupinambá youth, Serra do Padeiro village, Bahia, Brazil, 2026, 5 min)

When Guará hears a mysterious cry from the forest, an ordinary afternoon in the Tupinambá de Olivença village of Serra do Padeiro, Bahia, Brazil, takes an unexpected turn.

The Harvest (Tupinambá de Olivença youth, Tukum village, Bahia, Brazil, 2026, 5 min)

At dusk, siblings Narã and Maya enter the Atlantic Forest to gather genipap fruit for traditional body painting for the Indigenous games.