For Immediate Release:
The Falling Sky (A Queda do Céu)
“The Falling Sky” (A Queda do Céu) by Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha about the Yanomami people, we celebrate its world premiere at the Directors’ Fortnight of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Selected for Directors’ Fortnight, Brazilian directors Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha’s “The Falling Sky”, documents the powerful testimony of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and leader of the Amazonian Yanomami people as he performs the reahu ritual, a shamanistic ceremony mobilizing the community in a collective effort to hold up the sky and prevent it from falling. Through the reahu, the film addresses the destruction of the Yanomami’s way of life caused by the intrusions of the napë, the white prospectors and the so-called civilized world into the Yanomami territory.
Production
ARUAC FILMS – https://aruacfilmes.com.br/
Co-Production
Hutukara Associação Yanomami – https://hutukarayanomami.org/
Dário Vitório Kopenawa Yanomami – https://hutukarayanomami.org/dario-kopenawa-3/
https://www.ahumanatlas.com/artworks/somos-brasil/dario-vitorio-kopenawa-yanomami/
Stemal Entertainment – https://www.stemal.it/
Rai Cinema – https://www.rai.it/raicinema/
Associated Production
Les Films d’ici – https://www.lesfilmsdici.fr/
