In cinemas from 24 April. The cinema release tour starts now.

Visitors to the La Gacilly-Baden Photo Festival will likely already be familiar with Juma Xipaia and Richard Ladkani. They will recognise the internationally acclaimed director and the courageous indigenous leader from the heart of the Amazon from Ladkani’s exhibition at the 2024 festival. Richard Ladkani will be returning to the festival in 2026 with another exhibition, and Juma Xipaia will once again feature in it.

Their joint film is set to hit cinemas on 24 April:

YANUNI – DIE STIMME DES AMAZONAS

The cinema tour across Austria has already begun; you can catch the film at venues including Cinema Paradiso in Baden. See below for screening times.

The new film by Richard Ladkani (Sea of Shadows, The Ivory Game) was produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, among others, has won over twenty awards at film festivals worldwide, and is on the Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary Feature.

YANUNI – DIE STIMME DES AMAZONAS tells the story of Juma Xipaia, an indigenous leader from the heart of the Amazon who rose from environmental activism to the highest echelons of Brazilian politics: to the world’s first Ministry for Indigenous Peoples.

Whilst her husband Hugo, an agent for the Brazilian environmental agency, is cracking down on illegal gold mines, Juma navigates the tension between power, danger and motherhood – and in doing so, takes great personal risks.

Both intimate and epic, YANUNI – DIE STIMME DES AMAZONAS tells a gripping story of indigenous sovereignty, love and the urgent fight to save our planet through stunning imagery.

Trailer

Cinema release tour

Gartenbaukino Vienna, opening film of the Cine Latino Festival, 
Special guests: protagonist Juma Xipaia, director Richard Ladkani & film crew,
In the presence of Bundespräsident Alexander Van der Bellen and Doris Schmidauer, Moderation: Nora Holzmann, Greenpeace.
Thursday, 16 April, 7.30 pm

Cinema Paradiso Baden 
Special guests: protagonist Juma Xipaia, director Richard Ladkani & film crew
Friday, 17 April, 5.00 & 8.00 pm

Filmcasino Vienna, Film and Discussion 
Guest: Alexander Egit, Greenpeace Managing Director,
Richard Ladkani, Regisseur & Juma Xipaia, Protagonistin.
Samstag, 18. April, 17:30 Uhr

Votivkino Vienna, Film and Discussion 
Guest: Richard and Anita Ladkani, Alexandra Strickner, Managing Director of Global 2000 and co-founder of Attac, as well as Lukas Hammer, Member of the National Council and spokesperson for environmental protection.
An event organised by the Green Future Academy FREDA and the Green Club in Parliament.
Register  here
Wednesday 22 April, 7.30 pm

Moviemento Linz, Latin American Film Festival On Tour
Thursday 23 April, 8.30 pm

Metrokino Vienna, ADA-Screening
Monday 27 April, 8.00 pm, Director’s talk with Richard Ladkani, moderated by Wolfgang Knöpfler, film producer

Special offer for school cinema:

https://www.cineclass.at/film/yanuni