‘Gyuri’: Experiences with the Yanomami, documented by Claudia Andujar

Documentary

This documentary is about the struggle of the Indians, in reference to the Yanomami, but which extends to all other peoples who fight for survival.

Gyuri is a work conceived by Swiss photographer Claudia Andujar, under the direction of Mariana Lacerda, who gathered a compilation of experiences with the Yanomami people. The work is documented in a 1h30 film, produced by Jaraguá Produções and Bebinho Salgado 45, which premiered at Cine Casarão in Manaus.

“An unlikely geopolitical line between the small Hungarian village of Nagyvárad and the Yanomami Indigenous Land in the Brazilian Amazon. Jewish, survivor of World War II, Claudia Andujar went into exile in Brazil and dedicated her life to safeguarding the Yanomami peoples. Its valuable collection, its tireless militancy, its wartime past and the current vulnerability of the indigenous people are reviewed through Andujar’s dialogues with the shaman Davi Kopenawa and the activist Carlo Zacquini, with the interlocution of the Hungarian philosopher Peter Pál Pelbart”.

Claudia Andujar is now 90 years old, and faced the war in Hungary, fled Nazi persecution in Vienna, and it was in Brazil that she found a guardhouse with the Yanomami people. And throughout her trajectory, she works her photographic art as a tool, so that this people does not become extinct, and the history she went through when she lost her family, does not repeat itself with them.

This documentary is about the struggle of the Indians, in reference to the Yanomami, but which extends to all other peoples who fight for survival.

The film is now available on digital platforms, check out the official trailer below:

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