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202675 minGdocumentary

Solar Shadow

202675 minGdocumentary

Ancestral Indigenous astronomy in Brazil is explored through community memory, lectures, and conversations, highlighting diverse human understandings of the cosmos.

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Ancestral Indigenous astronomy in Brazil is explored through community memory, lectures, and conversations, highlighting diverse human understandings of the cosmos.

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Hugo Haddad

Hugo Haddaddirector

Isadora Caneladirector

Isadora Canelawriter

Germano Afonsowriter

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How do we read the sky—and who taught us? This beautiful exploration of ancestral Indigenous astronomy in Brazil weaves lectures, conversations and community memory into a poetic meditation on knowledge, loss and the many ways humans understand the cosmos.

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