Duwid is what the Wapixana people call Makunaima, brother of Tuminkery, creator beings of the world we live in. In 2028, the rhapsody Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade will turn one hundred years old, and this animated short enters this milestone not as a celebration of the modernist novel, but as a critical repositioning. In Andrade’s fiction and its developments, Macunaíma underwent successive processes of decontextualization: baptized and turned into plays, films, music, albums, rhapsodies, novels, short stories, and poetry. Yet the entirety of these productions was rarely seen or accessed by Indigenous peoples—nor conceived for them. In Makunaima is Duwid, Bete, a university student of Wapixana origin, converses with her grandmother about the stories of Duwid. The film enters this debate asserting the right of precedence and the continuity of these narratives. What Brazilian culture consecrated as a literary hero remains, in Indigenous cultures, grandfather and grandmother—a living presence in stories, territories, and struggles.
Duwid Tuminikiz – Makunaima é Duwid?
