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Contact Cinema and Female Shamanism at Igarapé Omerê

The Oxford Handbook of Brazilian Cinema October 6, 2026 Clarisse Alvarenga

Abstract: This chapter revisits the films Corumbiara (2009) and Isolados de Corumbiara (The Isolated of Corumbiara, 2021), both directed by filmmaker Vincent Carelli, set in the Igarapé Omerê in the Brazilian Amazon and involving the Kanoê and Akuntsu peoples. The first film stages national society’s establishing contact with the Kanoê and Akuntsu, peoples who have survived previous...