Holding Up the Sky

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Holding Up the Sky (2023)

Directed by Pieter van Eecke

Documentary · 1h 18m

"When the shamans stop dancing and life in the rainforest loses its balance, the sky will collapse and come to crush everything." This wisdom is passed down from generation to generation by the Yanomami of Brazil. But gold miners are polluting the rivers, shamans are dying, the rainforest is disappearing and the earth is getting hotter. Davi Kopenawa, a tribal leader and spokesman for the Yanomami, has been fighting relentlessly against the colonization of his land for 40 years. He warns Westerners that when the sky collapses, they too will be crushed. Why don't they listen? Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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Cast

Crew

Director
Pieter van Eecke
Writer
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, Dário Vitório Kopenawa Yanomami
Editor
Dieter Diependaele
Producer
Hanne Phlypo

Details

Release date
2023-04-13
Runtime
1h 18m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
Dutch, French, Portuguese