- This is the story of a native people from Brazil living in the deep western Amazon, returning to their ancestral and spiritual way of life by getting in touch with their own culture and identity.
- This film addresses the sacred forest ancestral medicine ayahuasca, which helped and allowed these people to rescue their identity, their culture, respect, and dreams, now living a cultural apex, traveling the world and sharing their culture and knowledge. Introducing the cosmology of the Huni Kuin people (western amazon forest in Brazil) and their cultural and ancestral practices.
- In the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, the Huni Kuin people are undergoing a profound renaissance of their identity. After enduring decades of slavery, massacres, and cultural suppression, their resurgence began in 2000. Two decades later, they're thriving at a cultural peak, rediscovering and embracing their true heritage.—Filmmakers
- During the 3 years of visiting and experiencing with the Huni Kuin people in Acre, the documentary (72min) Eskawata Kayawai is born. A register of the renaissance of Huni Kuin ancestral culture, a culture which has been lost with the entry of settlers and contact with the non-indigenous, enslaving this people and forbidding their practices, rituals, language and culture as a whole. It was only on 1988 that they could have their land demarcated and start to have their rights. This film tell the story of a village that started to rediscovery themselves by rediscovering the sacred medicine plant ayahuasca, reconnecting to their knowledge and making in a short time of 20 years, the Huni Kuin people unite, organize and empower themselves trough their own culture, reaching the point of traveling the world representing their culture, their music, their prayers, and art. A story told about and by themselves where they share their daily life and sacred rituals, headed of the well known spiritual leader, Ninawá Pai da Mata (Father of the Forest) and many villagers from Novo Futuro (New Future) village, located in the middle of the Amazon fortes in Acre-Brazil. Recalling what their life was before, and bridging with the 21st centuries, they reconnect to the memories of their ancestors, of the forest, calling them and guiding them not only on how to resume their culture, but how to expand it to the world, bringing healing to their people and to the non-indigenous that one day took from them what was most sacred, their identity, their knowledge. A broad and deep process of reconnecting with the nature and decolonisation of the peoples who colonised them, this film is about the culture they have lost and how they envision their mission in the world trough sharing their sacred knowledge.
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