Yõg Ãtak: My Father, Kaiowá
Sueli Maxakali, Roberto Romero, Luisa Lanna
Production: Layla Braz (Associação Filmes de Quintal - Brazil)
Co-production: Firelight Media, Wenner-Gren Foundation (USA)
Estimated length: 90'
Co-production: Firelight Media, Wenner-Gren Foundation (USA)
Estimated length: 90'
The film follows the journey of indigenous filmmaker Sueli Maxakali and her sister, Maisa Maxakali, to Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil) in search of their father, the shaman Luis Kaiowá, from whom they were separated as children during the Brazilian military dictatorship.