We at aemi are delighted that this first edition of Dissolutions will be opened at 6.15pm by journalist, activist and Dubliner Una Mullally.
The first screening of our festival is the Irish premiere of ‘The Buriti Flower’ from co-directors Joao Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora. Shot over 15 months in several villages in the Krahô territory, Central Brazil, ‘The Buriti Flower’ is the result of years of working with and alongside the indigenous communities that feature in the film. Winner of the Ensemble Prize at Cannes in 2023 where it showed as part of Un Certain Regard, the film is an example of eco-cinema at its most urgent and empathic.
The Krahô are the indigenous people of Northern Brazil. In The Buriti Flower, directors Salaviza and Nader Messora present four tales, cinematic representations of the Krahô’s oral histories, detailing tragic events from this people’s history.
Salaviza and Nader Messora immersed themselves in the lives of the Krahô, and captured, in the Krahô’s own unique, non-linear way, the tales of the injustices handed down through the years. From massacres against the Krahôs by settlers, the military dictatorship in the 1960s, to Bolsanaro’s disregard of their rights.
“[I]t eventually becomes impossible not to look at this beautiful place without feeling a real sense of urgency and alarm.” –Elena Lazic, Cineuropa
Film info:
Joao Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora, The Buriti Flower, Brazil/Portugal, 2023, 124 minutes
with Francisco Hyjnõ , Luzia Cruwakwyj & Debora Sodré
Languages: Krahô , Portugese
Produced by Joao Salaviza
This event is screening as part of aemi’s DISSOLUTIONS Festival in partnership with The Complex Dublin and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Tickets are available for individual days Friday or Saturday (15 euro per day) or for the full weekend (25 euro).
DISSOLUTIONS is proudly supported by Screen Ireland and The Arts Council.
