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When the flowers of the Mãri tree blossom, dreams arise. The words of a great shaman guide a dreamy experience through the synergy between cinema and the Yanomami dream, presenting poetics and teachings of the forest people. This documentary short by Yanomami filmmaker Morzaniel Æ—ramari has been shortlisted by the IDA Awards, a major gateway to the Oscars®. 

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Mãri hi – The Tree of Dream is directed by Morzaniel Æ—ramari with the participation of the great leader and shaman Davi Kopenawa, who leads us in this experience by presenting the knowledge of the Yanomami about dreams. This is the third film directed by Morzaniel, a well-established Yanomami filmmaker.

The film is part of the most recent film production by the Yanomami, comprising two other short films, Yuri u xëatima thë - The Fishing with Timbó and Thuë pihi kuuwi - A Woman Thinking, both directed by Aida Harika, Roseane Yariana, and Edmar Tokorino. Morzaniel Æ—ramari and the young directors live in the Demini region, in the Yanomami Indigenous Land (TIY), located between the states of Roraima and Amazonas.

The films inaugurate the new audiovisual production of the Yanomami, produced by young people who are part of a group formed in 2018 by Hutukara to become communicators and disseminate the work of the association among the Yanomami, as well as to other Indigenous communities and non-Indigenous people.

Awards and Festivals:

It’s All True / É Tudo Verdade 2023 (Brazil) - Best Brazilian Documentary Short Film Award

51st Gramado Film Festival 2023 (Brazil) - Best Cinematography Award and Special Jury Award

22nd Goiânia Short Film Festival (Brazil) - Best Short Film Award

30th FICValdivia - Valdivia International Film Festival (Chile) - Special Mention of the Jury for Latin American Short Film

80th Venice Film Festival – “Cinema of Inclusion” in collaboration with Isola Edipo and Giornata Degli Autori (Italy)

Sheffield DocFest 2023 (UK) - International Premiere

World of Film International Festival Glasgow (Scotland)

Morzaniel Æ—ramari

Morzaniel Æ—ramari is a Yanomami filmmaker, born in 1980 in Watorikɨ village, Demini region, in the Yanomami Indigenous Land, state of Amazonas, Brazil. He worked as Communication Coordinator at the Hutukara Associação Yanomami (Boa Vista) and was formed in Cinema in 2010 in the Indigenous Culture Points—Video in the Villages project. He works as an interpreter, translator, filmmaker, and director. His films circulated in several film festivals in Brazil and around the world. In 2010, he directed the short House of Spirits, winner of the Best Film award, according to the popular jury, at Mostra Aldeia SP in 2014. In 2014, he directed the feature film Urihi Haromatimapë - The Forest-Land Healers, which won the award for Best Film at the Forumdoc.BH festival. His most recent film, Mãri hi - The Tree of Dream (2023), was directed and edited by Morzaniel and filmed with the great shaman, Yanomami Indigenous leader and president of the Hutukara Yanomami Association, Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, and produced by the directors Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha.

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