Kumu Documentary: Amazomania
Why go
- Explore rare footage of isolated Amazon tribes
- Engage with ethical questions about first contact
- Experience a thought-provoking documentary
About
Dir Nathan Grossman
Sweden, Denmark and France 2026, 93 min
In English, Portuguese and French, with English subtitles
Footage of a 1996 expedition into the Amazon to document the isolated Korubo people resurfaces decades later, forcing the re-examination of the contact and the implications that followed.
In 1996, a Brazilian civil servant, Sydney Possuelo ,and a Swedish journalist, Erling Söderström, venture deep into the Amazon to meet the Korubo tribe, who live far from civilisation. The expedition ends with a first encounter, and the footage has been hailed as a sensation: rare images from a world that no one has ever seen before. Decades later, the material resurfaces and raises new questions. The film-maker, Nathan Grossman, rewinds the tape to investigate the other side of the story. And what he finds is no small matter.
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