A vivid, intimate fusion of ethnography and poetic narrative, The Buriti Flower (Crowrã) explores memories specific to the Krahô people of Brazil. And yet the story it tells, steeped in cultural tradition, political resistance and profound connection to the land, is, in many ways, the story of the Americas. It’s a story of trauma and resilience: native people slaughtered, the survivors pushed off their ancestral habitat. And, as the recent documentary The Territory made clear, it’s the story of an ongoing, urgent struggle to protect whole ecosystems from devastation and extinction.
This is the second feature from directing duo João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, who looked at Indigenous culture and mythology in Brazil in The Dead and the Others (2018), which received the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard. Returning to that Cannes sidebar — and receiving its Ensemble Prize — they’ve crafted another portrait of colonized Brazil, and...
This is the second feature from directing duo João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, who looked at Indigenous culture and mythology in Brazil in The Dead and the Others (2018), which received the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard. Returning to that Cannes sidebar — and receiving its Ensemble Prize — they’ve crafted another portrait of colonized Brazil, and...
- 5/30/2023
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lightning strikes twice. Having won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize in 2018 with “The Dead and the Others,” filmmaking duo Renée Nader Messora and João Salaviza scooped a Un Certain Regard Ensemble Prize on Friday night, including the collective crew and creative team, for “The Buriti Flower.”
The couple, whom across the years have developed what they describe as a profound relation with the Krahô Indigenous community, have delved once again into a unique production process resulting in a portrait of strong, sensorial visuals, while tabling an urgent dialogue on the means of resistance in a modern world.
Produced by Karõ Filmes, Entrefilmes and Material Bruto and sold by Films Boutique, the film tackles the impact of policies pursued by former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s on the life of Indigenous communities, eloquently shifting between fiction and documentary as it registers their own political discourse.
Shooting the previous film required...
The couple, whom across the years have developed what they describe as a profound relation with the Krahô Indigenous community, have delved once again into a unique production process resulting in a portrait of strong, sensorial visuals, while tabling an urgent dialogue on the means of resistance in a modern world.
Produced by Karõ Filmes, Entrefilmes and Material Bruto and sold by Films Boutique, the film tackles the impact of policies pursued by former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s on the life of Indigenous communities, eloquently shifting between fiction and documentary as it registers their own political discourse.
Shooting the previous film required...
- 5/29/2023
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
Films Boutique, the Berlin-based company behind “Pacifiction” and “The Burdened,” has come on board three international movies slated for the Cannes Film Festival. These include a pair of films set for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, “Terrestrial Verses” and “The Buriti Flower,” as well as “Tiger Stripes” which will bow at Critics’ Week.
“Terrestrial Verses,” directed by Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari, is the sole Iranian film premiering in the Official Selection. The movie marks the first collaboration between these two critically acclaimed directors.
Khatami previously wrote and directed “Oblivion Verses” which won best screenplay and the Fipresci prizes at Venice in 2017. Asgari, meanwhile, previously directed “Until Tomorrow” which premiered at Berlin last year, and presented two shorts at Cannes, “More Than Two Hours” in 2013 et “Il Silenzio” in 2016.
While the plot remains under wrap, the film’s title is a reference to a poet by famed Iranian Poet Forugh Farrokhzad.
“Terrestrial Verses,” directed by Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari, is the sole Iranian film premiering in the Official Selection. The movie marks the first collaboration between these two critically acclaimed directors.
Khatami previously wrote and directed “Oblivion Verses” which won best screenplay and the Fipresci prizes at Venice in 2017. Asgari, meanwhile, previously directed “Until Tomorrow” which premiered at Berlin last year, and presented two shorts at Cannes, “More Than Two Hours” in 2013 et “Il Silenzio” in 2016.
While the plot remains under wrap, the film’s title is a reference to a poet by famed Iranian Poet Forugh Farrokhzad.
- 4/26/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora’s feature world premiers at Cannes next month.
Berlin-based Films Boutique has taken world sales rights to João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora’s The Buriti Flower (A Flor Do Buriti), which world premieres next month in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
The film has already scored early distribution deals with France’s Ad Vitam, Brazil’s Embaúba Filmes and Portugal’s Desforra Apache
Brazil’s Nader Messora and Portugal’s Salaviza’s previously collaborated on The Dead And The Others, winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize in 2018.
The Buriti Flower saw...
Berlin-based Films Boutique has taken world sales rights to João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora’s The Buriti Flower (A Flor Do Buriti), which world premieres next month in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
The film has already scored early distribution deals with France’s Ad Vitam, Brazil’s Embaúba Filmes and Portugal’s Desforra Apache
Brazil’s Nader Messora and Portugal’s Salaviza’s previously collaborated on The Dead And The Others, winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize in 2018.
The Buriti Flower saw...
- 4/20/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
In a move which will be noted by art film distributors around the world, France’s Ad Vitam, a major force in Cannes Festival pre-buys and purchases, has acquired French rights to “The Dead and the Others,” this year’s Cannes Un Certain Regard special jury prize winner.
“The Dead and the Others” is sold by Paris-based Luxbox. Directed by Palme d’Or short film winner João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, it turns on 15-year-old Ihjãc, who is instructed by his dead father’s voice to celebrate the funerary feast allowing his father’s spirit to depart to the village of the dead and Ihjãc to get on with life. Reluctant to say goodbye to his father, also a first step to becoming a shaman, Ihjãc falls ill, and flees to the nearest town, to be cured by white people, They tell him, however, that he can only stay...
“The Dead and the Others” is sold by Paris-based Luxbox. Directed by Palme d’Or short film winner João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, it turns on 15-year-old Ihjãc, who is instructed by his dead father’s voice to celebrate the funerary feast allowing his father’s spirit to depart to the village of the dead and Ihjãc to get on with life. Reluctant to say goodbye to his father, also a first step to becoming a shaman, Ihjãc falls ill, and flees to the nearest town, to be cured by white people, They tell him, however, that he can only stay...
- 6/1/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Below you will find an index of our coverage from the Cannes Film Festival, Directors' Fortnight, and Critics' Week in 2018, as well as our favorite films.Awardstop 101. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)2. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke) & Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)4. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)5. Asako I & II (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)6. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)7. Dead Souls (Wang Bing)8. In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)9. Climax (Gaspar Noé)10. BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)(Contributors: Gustavo Beck, Annabel Ivy Brady-Brown, Giovanni Marchini Camia, Josh Cabrita, Jordan Cronk, Jesse Cumming, Lawrence Garcia, Daniel Kasman, Roger Koza, Richard Porton, Kurt Walker, Blake Williams)Correspondences#1 Daniel Kasman previews the festival | Read#2 Lawrence Garcia on Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi), Dead Souls (Wang Bing) | Read#3 Daniel Kasman on Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra), Donbass (Sergei Loznitsa) | Read#4 Lawrence Garcia on Leto (Kirill Serebrennikov), Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski) | Read#5 Daniel Kasman on The Image Book...
- 5/29/2018
- MUBI
An indigenous teenager falls ill when he resists tribal duties and his destiny as a shaman in João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora’s ethnographically sincere “The Dead and the Others.” Handsomely shot on 16mm to draw out the region’s warm organic tones, the film is an admirable, often fascinating fictionalized portrait of the Krahô people of Brazil’s north-central state of Tocantins and their fight to preserve traditions too easily watered-down by contact with the outside world. A major problem however is that the directors, who don’t speak Krahô, had their nonprofessional performers improvise their lines, giving far more space to exposition than their amateur acting can bear. Less dialogue and greater reliance on conveying information visually would have distinguished “The Dead” from other indigenous fiction, though Un Certain Regard’s special jury prize ensures a modest festival life.
Fifteen-year-old Ihjãc (Henrique Ihjãc Krahô) hears his deceased...
Fifteen-year-old Ihjãc (Henrique Ihjãc Krahô) hears his deceased...
- 5/25/2018
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
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