Manauara Clandestina

Electro-pop avant-gardist LYZZA slips into a surreal neon underground in this visual accompaniment to her mixtape of the same name.

A poetic hybrid documentary following Auritha Tabajara, an Indigenous writer, artist, and lesbian woman, as she reflects on memory, displacement, and identity. Through intimate voiceover and encounters with landscapes shaped by colonial violence, Auritha revisits her childhood, her forced separation from ancestral land, and the erasure imposed on Indigenous peoples in Brazil. The film also addresses her experience as a queer Indigenous woman, exploring how her homosexuality intersects with cultural belonging, exclusion, and self-affirmation. Moving between personal testimony and collective history, the film transforms loss into resistance, reclaiming voice, desire, and presence while reaffirming the inseparable bond between land, body, and storytelling.

Luz and Denise grow up in the midst of the adversities of being LGBT in the extreme south of the city of São Paulo. Between Vogue and poetry, from church to city access. The dreams and uncertainties of youth flood their existences.