The Center for Amerindian Studies (CEstA) and the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP) invite you to a screening of indigenous films as part of the AntropoCena project, on November 12, 2025, starting at 2 PM.
The screenings will be followed by discussions with the researchers and directors of the films, Aline Regitano and Bruno Huyer.
Aline Regitano is a doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (USP) and a researcher at CEstA - Center for Amerindian Studies. She has worked with the Mehinako people of the Upper Xingu for a decade, and dedicates herself to research on Amerindian corporeality, childbirth, care, and gender relations in Indigenous Amazonia.
Bruno Huyer is a doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology at USP and an associate researcher at CEstA - Center for Amerindian Studies. She has experience with collaborative audiovisual productions with different indigenous peoples and has recently dedicated herself to film and research projects with the Mbya Guarani in Rio Grande do Sul and Argentina.
Program:
Haukanünu Nãu Iyayakapiri - What the Mothers Say (26 min)
Synopsis: In the Utawana village of the Mehinako people, an Amazonian group from central Brazil, in the Xingu Indigenous Territory (MT), women have stopped giving birth at home with the help of midwives and now give birth in hospitals. This film presents the words (yiayakapiri) of the haukanünu, women who care for young children (usually mothers), and their perceptions of these recent transformations.
Direction: Aline Regitano and Warakina Mehinako
Remember this, my iambré (50 min)
Synopsis: Mobilizing inspired songs and words, Gãh Té, a Kaingang indigenous woman, leads her iambré relatives through the path of their ancestors, invoking human and non-human beings of the cosmos. Intertwining the time of the ancients in their contemporary struggle for a Kaingang territory, she traces the taming of the whites as her main strategy.
Direction: Bruno Huyer and Gãh Téh
Our spirits keep arriving - Nhe’ẽ kuery jogueru teri (15 min)
Synopsis: In Tekoa Ko’ẽju, Pará Yxapy, a Mbya Guarani indigenous woman, dedicates the first care to her unborn child and reflects, along with her relatives, on the meanings of her pregnancy amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.
Directed by: Ariel Ortega and Bruno Huyer
AntropoCena is an initiative of LISA and aims to bring to the public the audiovisual production made by USP researchers, through screenings and debates.
The event will take place in the LISA auditorium, at Rua do Anfiteatro, nº 181, favo/sala 10, Cidade Universitária, SP.
Free admission, subject to space limitations.
No registration required.