‘Yanuni’ Review: A Thrilling, Romantic Documentary About Brazil’s Fight for Indigenous Land

‘Yanuni’ Review: Tribeca Fest Closes With Timely and Inspiring Eco-Doc

In 2009, 18-year-old Juma Xipaia announced that her destiny would be “fighting for the Indigenous cause. Standing up for my people. My life,” she added with understated prescience, “is going to be one of struggle.” Just six years later, she became the first female chief of the Middle Xingu, in Brazil’s Amazon basin. Since then, she has led a movement for international protection of the Amazon, survived half a dozen assassination attempts, studie…

‘Yanuni’ Review: A Thrilling, Romantic Documentary About Brazil’s Fight for Indigenous Land

Few environmental documentaries begin with quite the urgency that “Yanuni” does. Even fewer blend political thrills with meditative visual poetry, but Austrian director Richard Ladkani strikes this balance with an even hand in his intimate chronicle of Juma Xiapaia, a brave Indigenous activist in Brazil and the first woman elected chief in the Amazon’s Middle […]

'YANUNI' (Tribeca 2025) Woman's climate work is never done.

YANUNI From producer Leonardo DiCaprio and director Richard Ladkani, YANUNI closes out Tribeca 2025 with a call to action and the story of a feminist hero who should be a household name. Juma Xipaia has survived six assassination attempts as the first female Indigenous chief of her people in the Middle Xingu. She and her husband are fierce environmental warriors in a raging battle for ownership of the Amazon. Ladkani’s camerawork and sound desig…

Tribeca 2025 Review: YANUNI Tracks Daring Activist Fighting Pollution in the Amazon

Richard Ladkani's documentary follows Amazonian activist fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]