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 them once again film with the Krahô indigenous people in heart of the Brazilian forest.
Shot on 16mm film over a 15-month period with a micro-crew, the film is told through the eyes of a child, Patpro, recounting the recent history of her people, beginning with a massacre that took place in 1940. The narrative focuses on their struggle for land and shows how the Krahô never stop inventing new forms of resistance in the face of ongoing persecution, guided by their ancestral rites, their love of nature and their fight to preserve their freedom.
Salaviza and Nader Messora’s Portugal-based Karõ Filmes produced, with Ricardo Alves Jr. and Julia Alves of Brazil’s Entre Filmes as minority co-producers.
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