Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy Movies

After spending a few months in the Vila Verde Village, the yãmĩyhex (women-spirit) prepare to leave. The filmmakers Sueli and Isael Maxakali register the preparations and the great feast for their farewell. During the feast days, a legion of spirits crosses the village. The yãmĩyhex go away,...

Paloma is a young psychiatrist, who is hired to work as a director of a clinic in Galicia, and is attracted to Mario, her very first patient. He suffers from a rare form of amnesia, commonly known as Korsakov's syndrome. As a result, both his short and long term memories are affected, and he has...

An immersion in spirituality and everyday life of the Mbya-Guarani from the Koenju village in Southern Brazil.

The Land Without Evil is the mythology that guides the Guaraní communities. It narrates the search for a lost paradise. From the moment that Europeans crossed the Atlantic, it became the anima of a resistance discourse. How many different weapons does it take for a fight? The solo exhibition of...

An intimate meeting between two women filming each other. An exploration of the relationship of two artists: an indigenous filmmaker and a non-indigenous visual artist and anthropologist.

Mythical-religious interpretation of the Mbya-Guarani on 17th century Jesuit reductions in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

In the village of Koenju, in Rio Grande do Sul, young Mario and his "gang" make fun of the challenges of today's Mbya-Guarani reality.

As Ariel Ortega thinks about the history of contact of the Mbya-Guarani, he tries to understand how his people got expelled from their land.

Young leadership and audiovisual director, Patrícia Ferreira has been recognized for the documentaries she makes with her people, the Guarani Mbya. When asked to discuss her work at one of the largest ethnographic film festivals in the world, the Margaret Mead Film Festival, held at the American...