Cannes: Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro’s Directors' Fortnight entry follows a group of native Yanomami people as they honor the past and try to forge a future. “The Falling Sky” takes its title from ...
EXCLUSIVE: The Indigenous Yanomami people of Brazil were largely left alone until the 1980s, when gold was discovered in their territory in the Amazon. Since then, illegal mining has brought “armed ...
The shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami tribe of the Brazilian Amazon describes the culture conflicts his people have faced in Western industrial society and global politics, issuing a plea for the ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar started working with Yanomami people in the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s, most of them did not know what a ...