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Holding up the Sky
Role: Offline Video-Editor
Director: Pieter van Eecke
Production Company: Clin d'oeil films
Year: 2023
If the shamans stop dancing and life in the rainforest loses its balance, the sky will fall and crush everything beneath it. This wisdom is passed on in the Brazilian Amazon by every generation of Yanomami. But gold diggers pollute the rivers, shamans die, the rainforest perishes and the earth warms up. Davi Kopenawa, shaman, chief and well-known spokesperson for the Yanomami, has been fighting these threats for more than 40 years. Time and again, he travels the world defending his people against an endless colonisation. Do the Whites understand that the fall from the sky will not only crush the Yanomami?
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