Maureen Bisilliat

Directed by the photographer Maureen Bisilliat, the documentary portraits the everyday life in the indigenous village of Mehinaku, in Alto Xingu, showing the planting and harvest of cassava, the fishing, the preparation of the annatto ink, the modeling of the domestic ceramics, the division of tasks between men and women, the work at the collective land, the relationship between parents and children, the marriage ceremony, the exchange with other villages and the great celebration of the Yamuricumã party.

Maureen Bisilliat retraces the path taken by Mário de Andrade through the Amazon in 1927. Covering 2,500 kilometers in five weeks on board Lima Gonçalves IV - from Belém to Manaus by the Amazon River and up to Porto Velho by the Madeira River -, the photographer recorded her impressions in a river diary written for his grandson Nicholas, then 5 years old.