Director: João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora
A single Krahô girl's memories carry three generations of resistance in this 2024 Brazilian-Portuguese drama shot inside an Indigenous community in the Amazon.
What is The Buriti Flower about?
Told through the eyes of young Patpro, the film moves across three distinct eras in the life of the Krahô people, an Indigenous community in the heart of Brazil. Rather than following a single continuous plot, it builds a portrait of a people who have faced generations of pressure on their land and way of life, yet keep returning to ritual, kinship, and the natural world around them as sources of strength. Ceremony, daily labor, and quiet family scenes sit alongside moments of confrontation with outside forces, and the film treats all of it as part of the same ongoing story: survival not as a single dramatic act but as something practiced daily, passed from elders to children, and renewed with every new act of resistance the community invents for itself.
Cast & crew
The film draws its cast almost entirely from the Krahô community itself, with Ilda Pratpo Krahô, Francisco Hyjnõ Krahô, Solane Tehtikwyj Krahô, and Raene Kôtô Krahô playing roles rooted in their own lived experience rather than professional acting careers. Brazilian actress Débora Sodré and Indigenous rights advocate Sonia Guajajara appear in supporting parts, alongside Luzia Cruwakwyj Krahô and Thiago Henrique Karai Djekupe, giving the production a texture that blends documentary-style presence with scripted storytelling.
Context & significance
Directors João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora previously collaborated with the Krahô on 'The Dead and the Others,' and this second feature deepens that long-term relationship rather than treating the community as a one-time subject. The pairing of a Portuguese-Brazilian filmmaking duo with an Indigenous cast working from their own history reflects a wider movement in recent Brazilian cinema toward co-authored storytelling, where the community shapes how its own story reaches the screen instead of simply appearing in front of the camera.
Where & how to watch
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