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| Xié follows the group of volunteer surgeons Expedicionários da Saúde into the border of Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia to witness the meeting with people from Tucanos, Barés and Werekenas ethnic groups. They are all people from the Amazon Forest needing operations.
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synopsis On left bank of the Xié River, deep in the Amazon Forest, just 30 km from the border between Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia, one small indigenous village becomes a temporary hospital. During eight days of surgery, the village of Vila Nova receives over 500 patients needing operations. They are Indians from 15 different ethnical groups, who arrive on boats having travelled on the river for up to seven days. Expedicionários da Saúde is a group of volunteer surgeons based more than 4,000 km away, in the city of Campinas, near São Paulo in the industrialized South of Brazil. The group has developed a unique program to carry out surgeries in remote parts of Brazil's Amazon Region. Working under the constant hum of generators, the surgeries are carried out in a tent, on patients whose only other option would be to seek treatment in Manaus, the Amazon's main city, over 1,000 km away. Xié is a revealing portrait of life in Alto Rio Negro, one of the least explored places in South America. As each patient is treated in the temporary hospital at Vila Nova, the personal life of a Brazilian Indian unfolds. And the encounters between doctors and patients mirror the country's extremes - the modern, metropolitan Brazil of the doctors, and the wild Amazon of the patients. personnel directed by: Otavio Cury director of photography: Otavio Cury and Raquel Brust editor: Guilherme Canton music: Fabio Góes script: Otavio Cury, Guilherme Canton and Fabio Atuí sound post-production: Input Arte Sonora sound supervision: Fernando Henna image post-production: DOT color grading: Junior Xis opening credits: Daniel Tumati Lima poster design: Tati Valiengo executive production: Leonardo Kehdi Jr and Mayumi Palmeira produced by: Fabio Atuí, Leonardo Kehdi Jr and Otavio Cury produced in cooperation with: Expedicionários da Saúde. lenght: 72 minutes format: HD languages: Portuguese and Nheengatu Otavio Cury Otavio Cury was born in São Paulo in 1971. He graduated in Agronomic Engineering at University of São Paulo in 1994. His first documentary as a director, Cosmópolis (55 min / 2005), was shown by Brazilian TV channels Cultura, Futura and GNT, selected to Brazil's main film festivals and was part of Tate Modern's exhibit Global Cities in 2008. Otavio was a partner at Mutante Filmes from 2003 to 2006. In 2008 he started Outros Filmes.
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