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DCEFF at LAFF: The Falling Sky

AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Rd, MD 20910, Silver Spring

Co-presented by AFI's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF Deep within the Amazon, the Yanomami people are facing an existential threat. Since a highway tore through their territory in the early 1970s, miners have encroached on their land, bringing violence and disease. Filmmakers Eryk Rocha (CINEMA NOVO) and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha go beyond ethnography, […]

$15

DCEFF at LAFF: God is a Woman

AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Rd, MD 20910, Silver Spring

A Co-presentation of AFI Silver's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF In this powerfully self-reflexive documentary, Swiss-Panamanian filmmaker Andrés Peyrot embeds himself alongside the Indigenous Kuna people in Panama's Guna Yala islands to document their efforts to recover the lost film GOD IS A WOMAN. Made in 1975 while observing the Kuna's matrilocal society by […]

$15

DCEFF at LAFF: God is a Woman

AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Rd, MD 20910, Silver Spring

A Co-presentation of AFI Silver's Latin American Film Festival and DCEFF In this powerfully self-reflexive documentary, Swiss-Panamanian filmmaker Andrés Peyrot embeds himself alongside the Indigenous Kuna people in Panama's Guna Yala islands to document their efforts to recover the lost film GOD IS A WOMAN. Made in 1975 while observing the Kuna's matrilocal society by […]

$15