{"id":295539,"date":"2025-04-03T23:38:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/in-new-film-indigenous-traditions-persist-amid-loss\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T23:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:38:39","slug":"in-new-film-indigenous-traditions-persist-amid-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/in-new-film-indigenous-traditions-persist-amid-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"In new film, Indigenous traditions persist amid loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWhat is that smoke for?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\">In a remote Amazonian village, a young boy asks his grandfather why a haze surrounds their home. \u201cIt protects us from them, from the invisible beings of the water,\u201d his grandfather replies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\"\/><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\">A new short film, \u201cLanawaru,\u201d follows the boy as he seeks comfort in the Indigenous traditions, prayers and guidance of his grandfather, whose help is sought after a member of their community disappears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\"\/><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\">The film, produced by Conservation International in partnership with Bezos Earth Fund, debuted at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam late last year, and will begin screening at the Cartagena International Film Festival on April 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\"\/><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\">Watch the trailer here:<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-sf-ec-immutable=\"\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 350px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" class=\"-align-center\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Lanawaru: Grandfather Caim\u00e1n | Trailer\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mEqihmyuIPM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\"\/><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\">Set in Puerto Caim\u00e1n, along the Caquet\u00e1 river in southeastern Colombia, the grandfather communicates with the inhabitants of the forest, including the fearsome \u201cGrandfather Caiman\u201d known as Lanawaru, through sacred healing and protection rituals that are core to the community and maintaining a balanced relationship with nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\"\/><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\">\u201cIndigenous people of the Amazon have maintained the land for thousands of years,\u201d said Angello Faccini Rueda, the director of the film. \u201cThey know they must maintain that sacred balance with nature \u2014 it\u2019s what keeps the world in peace. Our goal was to capture the atmosphere of the place, rather than explain it. As the environmental crisis grows, it\u2019s critical to highlight this relationship.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\"\/><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\">Watch the film <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/993018170\/193a3ae2f6\" target=\"_blank\" data-sf-ec-immutable=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Mary Kate McCoy is a staff writer at Conservation International. Want to read more stories like this? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservation.org\/act\/subscribe\">Sign up for email updates<\/a>. Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservation.org\/act\">please consider supporting our critical work<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservation.org\/blog\/it-protects-us-from-them-in-new-film-indigenous-traditions-persist-amid-loss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat is that smoke for?\u201d In a remote Amazonian village, a young boy asks his grandfather why a haze surrounds their home. \u201cIt protects us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}