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Friday, Sep 19, 2025
3:30 PM (94 mins)
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Yõg ãtak: My Father, Kaiowá
(Yõg Ãtak: Meu Pai, Kaiowá)
Presented with the support of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
In Conversation
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Natalia Brizuela is the Class of 1930 Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies and a Professor in the Departments of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese at UC Berkeley.
Sueli Maxakali, Daniela Kaiowá, Michele Kaiowá, Alexandre Maxakali,
When she was just six months old, filmmaker Sueli Maxakali’s father, Luis Kaiowá, was taken away from his Tikmũ’ũn family in Minas Gerais, Brazil, by the administrators of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) and relocated to the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, the traditional lands of the Kaiowá people that he had left behind years earlier. Separated by more than forty years and one thousand miles, Maxakali and her partner document her search for her father, while highlighting the struggles of the Indigenous peoples of Brazil to maintain their traditions and autonomy.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Sueli Maxakali
- Roberto Romero
- Tatiana M. Klein
Cinematographer
- Bené Machado
Language
- Portuguese
- Maxakali
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- Digital
- 94 mins
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