Yupumá
Yupumá
Gazing at the evening sky from his hammock, Kawá Huni Kuin had a vision of skyscrapers. At dawn the cadence of the Amazon rainforest was a bustling city.
While it started as a dream, in this film we follow Kawá Huni Kuin, an apprentice healer, as he prepares to leave his village deep in the Brazilian rainforest to go to Europe for the first time as a messenger for his people and the world.
Yupumá, the indigenous concept, belonging to the Huni Kuin/Kaxinawá people from the lowland Brazilian Amazon, refers to doing something for the first time and its rewards and consequences.