The short documentary Replikka, co-directed by Indigenous filmmaker Piratá Waurá (Xingu territory) and director Heloisa Passos, will debut in the UK at the BFI, as part of the BFI’s Brazil on Film season. The screening forms a double bill with the feature documentary The Father and the Shaman (O Pai e o Pajé, dirs. Lawaretê Kaiabi, Felipe Tomazelli and Luís Villaça, Brazil, 2025).

Synopsis
On the borders of the Xingu Indigenous Territory in Brazil, a sacred cave is vandalised, threatening the collective memory of the Xingu peoples. Replikka is a meditation on memory, identity, loss and rebirth, as a full-scale replica of the cave is conceived, produced and installed in the Ulupuwene village to pass knowledge on to a new generation. The film invites us to reflect on the ancestral wisdom of the Wauja people and how technology and Indigenous knowledge can come together as an act of resistance. Directed by Piratá Waurá (Xingu Territory) and Heloisa Passos (São Paulo), the film is built from ritual and dream, spoken entirely in the Indigenous language Aruak, and made with the support of young people from the village.

Tuesday, 30 June 2026, 18:10

BFI Southbank, Screen NFT2