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Uýra – The Rising Forest

Director: Juliana Curi
Brazil, USA, 72 minutes, 2022, documentary

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.

Trigger warning: descriptions of physical and institutional violence
Film screening dates: 23.11.2024 — 8.12.2024
Великий план, чорно-білий портрет. Жінка в сонячних окулярах, з довгим темним волоссям, зібраним у пучок на потилиці, у намисті й легкій смугастій майці зосереджено дивиться в накамерний монітор.
Director
Juliana Curi is a Brazilian-Latina film director and visual artist. She began her career in the creative department of MTV Brazil developing socio-cultural impact campaigns. Since then she was Bric Brooklyn Film+TV Resident, UN Women’s Award winner and her projects include the documentary film Uýra– The Rising Forest and the filmmaking inclusion program EUETU Lab.