Film about the Yanomami people will premiere at Berlin Film Festival

“The Last Forest”, a film by Luiz Bolognesi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, writer, shaman and Yanomami leader, was selected for the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, one of the most important festivals in the world. The feature film portrays the struggle of isolated Yanomami indigenous against the mining invaders and its premiere in Brazil is scheduled for the second semester of 2021.

Bolognesi was awarded an honorable mention by the festival in 2018 for his documentary “Ex-Shaman”, about the life of the Paiter Suruí, inhabitants of the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land in Rondônia state. Internationally recognized for his work in defense of indigenous rights, Kopenawa will make his debut at the Berlinale.