Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction. The film begins with Makunaima, one of the founding myths of the native people from the border between Brazil-Venezuela-Guiana, first captured in the writings of the German ethnographer Koch-Grünberg at the beginning of the 1910s. With interviews in Portuguese, German, Spanish, and in the indigenous languages Macuxi and Taurepang, Searching for Macunaima reclaims this amazing character who represents Brazil in many ways (from literature to cinema to theatre) and remains relevant to date.
Juliana Colares
Writer
Rodrigo Séllos
Director
Paulo José
Himself
Tatiana Longo Figueiredo
Herself
Grande Otelo
Archive footage
Jaider Esbell
Himself
Luiz Carlos Barreto
Himself
Joana Fomm
Herself
Heloísa Teixeira
Herself
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