

Amazon women bypass politicians, speak directly to the UN — in 11 fierce minutes.
Kisêdjê women’s manifesto against deforestation and river pollution. Filmmaker Kamikia Kisêdjê and the Kisêdjê Cinema Collective decided to send a message from their people to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. The women took the lead making the statements, forcefully expressing their worry about the devastation of the Amazon and the future of their grandchildren.
Direction
Kamikia hands the camera to women — radical decentralization.
Production
Vídeo nas Aldeias: Indigenous media collective since 1987.
Writing
Speeches forged from lived crisis, not polished scripts.
Director
Kamikia Kisedje
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vídeo nas Aldeias trains Indigenous filmmakers to control their own image — a radical rejection of extractive ethnography.
The Kisêdjê (Suyá) language is spoken by fewer than 300 people; this film preserves political speech in endangered words.
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