Por onde anda Makunaíma

Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction The film begins with Makunaima one of the founding myths of the native people from the border between BrazilVenezuelaGuiana first captured in the writings of the German ethnographer KochGrünberg at the beginning of the 1910s With interviews in Portuguese German Spanish and in the indigenous languages Macuxi and Taurepang Searching for Macunaima reclaims this amazing character who represents Brazil in many ways from literature to cinema to theatre and remains relevant to date