Quem Deu Nome À Terra?

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HAKAN returns to Brazil after years studying music abroad, finding a country in which racial identity is systematized by the State. The new identification system does not allow Hakan to register as an indigenous person without a declaration from a community confirming his belonging to it. Playing with his family and the Maracatu group with which he is reunited, Hakan realizes how much the people around him don’t care about the issue of identification. When the drumming turns into a party and the police interrupt by taking his sacred drum, Hakan is forced to register to get it back. Hakan discovers a community in the city that sells statements like the one he needs. Uncomfortable with the commercialization of identity, Hakan travels with his sister JÉSSYCA to the interior of the backlands to investigate their ancestry, while they talk about the differences in their life experiences due to their phenotype. At his aunt ROSA’s house, Hakan experiences the indigenous traditions still present in his family’s daily life, even though they don’t care about identification issues. Rosa tells Hakan the communities where he can look for the declaration, and Hakan continues his research without Jéssyca, who must return to the city. In the Kanindé community, chief PEQUENA’s refusal to make the statement sends Hakan on a journey of remembrance of the moments in his childhood in which his appearance brought discrimination. The memories become a connection with ancestors and enchanted people as Hakan makes a new drum with materials he gains from the community. Entering the forest, Hakan confronts the entity Caipora who, by exposing him to his fears, reveals the multiplicity of his identity, which cannot be accommodated either by labels or by the State. Hakan builds his new drum, and gets lost in a mass of people who drum until dawn beside the sea.