Uýra – The Rising Forest
Uýra – The Rising Forest is a documentary feature film that tells the story of Uýra, an enchanted being from the Amazon, who uses transforming art to echo ancestral messages from the forest. In the country that kills trans, indigenous and environmentalist youth the most in the world, Uýra is the body that Brazil insists on killing. As a trans-artist-indigenous-educator, their existence and resistance has been a source of inspiration and unity, fostering a revolution in the arts, education, the LGBTQIA+ scene and environmental causes in the heart of the Amazon Forest. The film's plot focuses on the metaphor inspired by ecological succession to tell the processes of social struggles. In three acts we follow the destruction of the soil and violence to life, the subsequent emergence of pioneer species, young, that germinate quickly to rebuild the soil and make way for the new generation of forest that will come, stronger.