Brazilian Film Week: Xingu

The Bioscope Independent Cinema, The Embassy of Brazil in Pretoria and the Brazil- South Africa Cultural Centre presents the Brazilian Film Week 2017. 

FREE ENTRANCE

Xingu (2012)

Directed by: Cao Hamburger

Drama

103min

This biographical fiction tells the story of the Brazilian Villas-Bôas brothers, who joined an expedition along the Xingu River in the 1940’s, to explore the Western hinterlands of Brazil. In their pioneering, adventurous journey, the brothers make contact with Brazilian indigenous tribes and launch a campaign to protect indigenous people and their culture, changing Brazil’s history and the country’s relations with its indigenous people.