WOW FILM FESTIVAL
FILMS 2025

Director: Eryk Rocha, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Brazil/Italy, 2024, 110', Yanomamö with English subtitles

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UK Premiere

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Based on the powerful words of shaman and Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa, The Falling Sky portrays the Indigenous community of Watorikɨ as it engages in a vital funeral rite known as a Reahu - a collective effort to hold up the sky. The film stands as a trenchant shamanic critique of illegal gold mining, the deadly mix of epidemics brought by outsiders the Yanomami call “xawara”, and those Davi calls the “merchandise people.” Showcasing the beauty of Yanomami cosmology and its xapiri spirits while also highlighting this people’s geopolitical importance, The Falling Sky invites us to dream far.

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'One of the most necessary and scorching pieces of nonfiction storytelling in recent memory.' - Variety

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⭐Golden Eye Nominee - 77th Cannes Film Festival
🏆Best Director (Documentary) - 26th Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival