Yanuni

Jun 14, 2025

1h 52m

★ 6.0

We are the forest.

Overview

Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia fights to protect tribal lands despite assassination attempts. Her struggle intensifies after learning she's pregnant, while her husband, Special Forces ranger Hugo Loss, stands by her side.

Genres

Drama

Documentary

Production Companies

Malaika Pictures

Appian Way

Nia Tero

Age of Union

TELLUX-Film

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Cast

Self

Juma Xipaia

Self

Hugo Loss

Self

Tuppak Tawary Xipaia

Self

Yanuni Xipaia Loss

Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repaired and inspected for road-worthiness, with a little help from an eccentric bunch of friends who never seem to have grown up either.

0.0

Hendi & Hormoz

Feb 22, 2018

16-year-old Hormoz is consoled by the prospect of hiring on at the strip mine as he is married off to 13-year-old Hendi. Alas, the young man finds the doors of opportunity shut tight. When Hendi becomes pregnant Hormoz enters into an ominous pact with a smuggler in order to ensure his family’s livelihood.

6.4

Melvin and Howard

Sep 19, 1980

The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes. Inspired by real events.

7.0

Caprelles et Pantopodes

Dec 23, 1930

No overview available.

7.5

Chernobyl, Fukushima: Living with the Legacy

Apr 26, 2016

30 years after the Chernobyl catastrophe and 5 years after Fukushima it is time to see what has been happening in the “exclusion zones” where the radioactivity rate is far above normal.

6.1

Wild Amsterdam

Mar 1, 2018

The city from the unique perspective of the many wild animals and plants that inhabit it. Seen through the eyes of the adventurous urban cat, Abatutu.

0.0

Metamorphosis

Jun 12, 2009

Hamilton Souther is the founder of Blue Morpho Tours, a company that caters to ayahuasca tourists in the Peruvian Amazon. Souther talks about the events that led him to Amazonian shamanism. Five first-time ayahuasca drinkers on a nine-day retreat with Blue Morpho relate their experiences.

6.6

Mother and Child

Nov 7, 2009

The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for adoption. Elizabeth was an adopted child and is now a successful lawyer, but her personal life lacks warmth. Lucy and her husband have failed to conceive and now hope to adopt a baby to make their family complete.

5.7

Remedy

Feb 16, 1983

A midwife is caught in a snowstorm on the way to Anatolia and forced to spend four months in an isolated village., where she’s soon tending sick children and delivering babies.

3.4

Misconceptions

Jan 22, 2010

The story centers on a religiously conservative, married southern woman who receives a message from God instructing her to act as a surrogate mother and carry a child for two married gay men who live in Boston - a Jewish doctor and and African-American dance choreographer. All Hell breaks loose when the African American man comes to her home down south to micro-manage her pregnancy, and he won't leave.

8.0

He won't kill you

Dec 13, 2024

No overview available.

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10.0

Delhi minus Umar Khalid

Mar 2, 2024

In light of jailed activist Umar Khalid withdrawing his petition from the Supreme Court amid repeated adjournments, journalist Ravish Kumar captures the contours of Delhi in a video letter addressed to him. What comes out is a critical piece reflecting on the cowardice and the deafening silence of Delhi on the whole matter.

0.0

Cow Heavy and Floral

Dec 19, 2024

A postpartum writer struggles to make a deadline as she experiences an identity crisis between her various personas.

2.0

Helena of Sarayaku

Mar 18, 2022

Helena is 17 years old and studies in Finland. Her father, a Swede, and her mother, indigenous Kichwa of Sarayaku, live at the heart of the Amazon in Ecuador.

6.0

Code Name Jenny

Oct 26, 2017

The woman known as "Jenny" decides to take justice for refugees in Europe into her own hands.

4.2

68 Pages

Dec 9, 2007

Coming from a country like India that is still in denial, where being HIV+ is still a curse, '68 Pages' rips open the underbelly of its society to reveal how it stigmatizes and shuns those who are HIV+ or even those who just want to be what they are. Through 68 Pages of a counselors diary, we see the stories of Paayal, a sex worker; Nishit, an ID user; Kiran, a gay man and Umrao, a transsexual bar dancer - their stories of pain and fear, humiliation and rejection - not only by the society, but even by their loved ones.

6.7

The Resistance Banker

Mar 8, 2018

In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. With his brother Gijs, he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the Resistance.

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