Annecy entry “Nimuendajú” was received by O2 Play for World Sales

O2 Play is one of Brazil's most active international distributors and has gained global rights to "Nimuendajú", an influential 2D animated biopic "Germany Curt Unckel", a pioneering defender of Brazil's indigenous communities.

In a dual market strategy, O2 Play head Igor Kupstas will host a market screening in the Marché Du film at the Cannes Film Festival, and then "Nimuendajú" plays the prestigious Contrechamp section at the Annecy Animation Festival in June, whose artistic director Marcel Jean calls the film "surprising".

The debut feature of Minas Gerais-based Tania Anaya ("Drums", "agtux") "nimuendajú" is sometimes a delicious 2D Brazilian animation - thinking of the Oscar-nominated "Boys and the World" - especially when it portrays Amazon Forest Landscapes. But it has a darker tone, more intense, capturing moments of violence, or when it incorporates archival photos of periods from members of Indigenous communities in the government reserves.

This tone fits its theme. Produced by Anaya Produçoes Culturais of Belo Horizonte, the film chronicles the heroic life of social scientist Curt Unckel, who moved from Germany's native Jena to Brazil, when a 20-year-old with wide eyes, 1903.

A witness of a mass massacre of a Guaraní group by a local cattle rancher – which is dismissed by a federal government official as the cost of “the development of civilization” in one of the film's many memorable scenes – Unckel “had one priority: to produce data and register the memory and future of Indigenous people who, he believed, were about to be extended,” director Anaya comments in a epilogue title card.

In another sense, Unckel was a pioneer who was murdered in 1945 in a Tikuna village in the Amazon. Amaya added that the reason for his death was "still unknown". "In this way, his history is no different from the stories of other Indigenous peoples and activists and defenders, many of whom murdered without punishing their killers for these crimes. Sacrifice to all."

Annecy's Marcel Jean commented: "Director Tanya Anaya has witnessed the persecution suffered by the indigenous people and has successfully captured this person's firm commitment."

Peter Ketnath ("Freedom Passport") is a German actor who starred in the Cannes Film Festival champion "Cinema, Aspirin and Vulture" of Marcelo Gomes, whose voice is unckel/nimuendajú, making the most of his character's letter readings written to his sister on the role of Germany and friend Carlos, making his sister and friends more like his life.

Ketnath also co-produced "Nimuendajú" through his production company Cinezebra, along with Perú's Apus Animation, the film participated in the participation of the Apinayé, Canela Rankokamekra and the Guarani community. Director Anaya also devotes most of her time to helping Brazil's indigenous communities. She worked as an art teacher at Maxakali People in Minas Gerais and studied by Nimuendajú teaching them painting, illustration and graphic art. She and the tribe wrote books and newspapers in Maxakali language. This coexistence eventually peaked in the “American” of the “hybrid Doc animation media”, which was awarded at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival in Germany in 2007.

O2 Play will also be marketed at the Cannes Film Festival, a screening that is directed and co-written by legendary Brazilian TV and theater major Miguel Falabella and brings its screenwriter, playwright, director, actor, producer, producer and TV host to Brazil and Brazil and Directed Moare Moaran the Moantar and Directed Moantar na stare in.

With Hsu Chien (“Licença Para Enlouquecer”), and described as bittersweet drama about the unlikely encounter, personal collapse and the quiet resilience of the beginning, “Our Dear Life” is against the New Year celebrations on Copacabana. As fireworks and joy erupt, two strangers find themselves trapped in a rotten apartment building, a relationship between emotional and physical remains that fail to plan in their lives.

"Our Dear Life" is written by Falabella and his lifelong creative partner, the late Maria Carmen Barbosa ("Salsa e Merengue". "The film weaves humorous, tender and melancholy ways into a whimsical allegorical narrative - this iconic tone defines their contribution to Brazilian theater and television," O2 Play notes.