The Father and the Shaman

+ UK Premiere: Replikka

O Pai e o Pajé

An Indigenous director confronts the rift between pastor and shaman inside his own home.

  • Directors

    Iawarete Kaiabi, Felipe Tomazelli, Luís Villaça

  • Brazil 2025. 84min

  • Digital

  • English subtitles

Iawarete turns the camera on his own family, in the Xingu – a region that runs alongside a tributary of the Amazon River – where his father is a pastor and his uncle a shaman. As evangelical missions advance across the territory, Kaibi records the rift opening within his community and his own home. It’s a powerful first-person film about faith, loss and the fight to keep ancestral ways alive.

UK Premiere: Replikka

Brazil 2025. Directors Piratá Waurá, Heloisa Passos. 16min. Digital. With English subtitles

In this meditation on loss and rebirth, set on the border of the Upper Xingu Indigenous territory of Brazil, a sacred cave is vandalised, threatening a community’s collective memory.

The screening on 30 June will no longer have an intro. The 27 June screening will include a Q&A.