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Holding up the sky
Holding up the sky

If the shamans stop dancing and life in the rainforest loses its balance, the sky will fall and crush everything beneath it. This wisdom is passed on in the Brazilian Amazon by every generation of Yanomami. But gold diggers pollute the rivers, shamans die, the rainforest perishes and the earth warms up. Davi Kopenawa, shaman, chief and well-known spokesperson for the Yanomami, has been fighting these threats for more than 40 years. Time and again, he travels the world defending his people against an endless colonisation. Do the Whites understand that the fall from the sky will not only crush the Yanomami?

  • Director: Pieter Van Eecke
  • Cinematographer: Johan Legraie
  • Sound: Félix Blume
  • Editor: Simon Schuurman
  • Producer: Hanne Phlypo 
  • Coproducers: Hasse van Nunen en Renko Douze
  • Lenght: 80'
  • With the support of Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Centre du Cinéma de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Netherlands Film Fund, DGD, VRT/CANVAS, Casa Kafka Pictures, The Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, Eurimages, Taskovski
Holding up the sky

If the shamans stop dancing and life in the rainforest loses its balance, the sky will fall and crush everything beneath it. This wisdom is passed on in the Brazilian Amazon by every generation of Yanomami. But gold diggers pollute the rivers, shamans die, the rainforest perishes and the earth warms up. Davi Kopenawa, shaman, chief and well-known spokesperson for the Yanomami, has been fighting these threats for more than 40 years. Time and again, he travels the world defending his people against an endless colonisation. Do the Whites understand that the fall from the sky will not only crush the Yanomami?

  • Director: Pieter Van Eecke
  • Cinematographer: Johan Legraie
  • Sound: Félix Blume
  • Editor: Simon Schuurman
  • Producer: Hanne Phlypo 
  • Coproducers: Hasse van Nunen en Renko Douze
  • Lenght: 80'
  • With the support of Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Centre du Cinéma de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Netherlands Film Fund, DGD, VRT/CANVAS, Casa Kafka Pictures, The Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, Eurimages, Taskovski