A vivid cinematic portrait, Yanuni tells the story of Juma Xipaia, an Indigenous chief from the Brazilian Amazon who rises from a remote village in the jungle to being appointed Brazil’s first Secretary of Indigenous Rights. A fearless defender of her people and the rainforest, Juma has survived multiple assassination attempts while confronting illegal gold miners, land-grabbers, and multinational corporations threatening her ancestral land. At her side is Hugo Loss, her husband and the head of Special Operations at IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental protection agency. As Juma fights on the political front, Hugo leads dangerous operations to dismantle illegal mining camps deep in the Amazon—often under armed threat.      

As Juma navigates political power, growing threats, and impending motherhood, she is forced to confront the personal cost of resistance. At once epic and intimate, Yanuni is a powerful portrait of resilience, love, Indigenous sovereignty, and the fight to protect the world’s largest rainforest—for future generations and the planet we call home.      

“A thrilling, romantic documentary about Brazil’s fight for Indigenous land…it captures a hopeful, revolutionary spirit, but it grounds these notions within the poetry of nature, through some of the most enrapturing, awe-inspiring landscape photography…It’s the kind of movie deserving of enormous canvases like full-frame Imax…but its ultimate goals are emotionally intimate.” Variety