Three women turn cameras into shields. The rainforest fights back with myth and memory.
Using the camera as a weapon to defend their ancestral land in Brazil, three women of the Daje Kapap Eypi audiovisual collective lovingly record their Munduruku traditions and their mythology of humans transforming into forest plants and animals.
Cinematography
Camera as weapon and witness—every frame intentional.
Direction
Collective vision, no single auteur ego.
Production
Community-made cinema, literally.
Director
Aldira Akay
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Daje Kapap Eypi collective emerged from Munduruku resistance movements, making this one of the rare feature documentaries directed entirely by Indigenous women from the community it portrays.
The title's 'fish women' reference a specific origin myth where female ancestors became river guardians—knowledge deliberately withheld from colonial ethnographers for generations.
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