Twenty-five years ago, the anthropologist and filmmaker Vincent Carelli, filmed a group of isolated Indians persecuted by ranchers who were bending the law to hunt – and even kill – these indigenous people simply to expand their land and make a profit. Carelli follows Marcelo, who is in charge of locating the Indians, and takes part in a real search for evidence of the massacres so as to bring the guilty to court. This desire for justice gives rise to a real investigative film built around an anthropological encounter with the Canoe tribe. For the Indians themselves, the film project turns into a way of surveying their territory in an almost desperate attempt to become the archaeologists of their own people.
M.M.
