“Screening: The Falling Sky” (Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies)

Free and open to the public!

 

Introduction by Moira Fradinger

(Professor, Yale Comparative Literature)

 

Description: In collaboration with Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami people, THE FALLING SKY follows the Yanomami leader and shaman Davi Kopenawa as he fights to return the world to balance in closely observed rituals and trenchant comments on the ruthless logic of a materialistim outside culture. Illegal logging, gold mining, and the deadly mix of epidemics these intrusions spread threaten the existence of the Yanomami. Based on an acute understanding of geopolitical forces, Davi Kopenawa holds up a mirror to capitalist societies of “the merchandise people” and the unsustainable lifestyle of the so-called “developed countries” that threatens the survival of humanity as a whole.

 

2024 | Directed by Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha | Brazil/Italy | Portuguese with English subtitles | 108 minutes

 

Sponsored by the Yale Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies