Eskawata Kayawai – The Spirit of Transformation

In the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, the Kaxinawá people (meaning ‘bat people’ named by the colonisers, but self-claimed ‘Huni Kuin’ meaning true people) are experiencing their cultural and spiritual renaissance after decades of slavery, forbidden to live their identity. It was only in the year 2000 this first nation started to remember back who they really were, the culture started to slowly return with cultural strengthening undertaken by the spiritual leader Ninawá Pai da Mata. In this feature film, we are taken by the villagers to the cacophony and the enchantments of the forest medicines sharing their culture and importance of identity of the first nations. Such powerful return home is an example for the world, especially in the critical moment in which we live, proving that it is possible to rescue ancestry and revolutionize everyday life to be in harmony with the planet.