Movie Night with the SFBC Green Sangha
Friday November 13 at 7pm
In honor of Native American Heritage month, the SFBC Green Sangha cordially invites you to join us for a screening of:
Flowers of the Earth, The Prayer of the Guarani-Kaiowá
Documentary, 2026, Directors Zaya Ralitza Benazzo, Maurizio Benazzo,
For the Guarani-Kaiowá of Mato Grosso do Sul, there is no line where the body ends and the land begins. The earth is their skin, the tree their umbilicus, the mountains the bones of a living mother. But for over a century, that mother has been fenced, burned, mined, and poisoned, her children pushed onto slivers of the territory that once held them all. The film listens to the elders who remember the forest before the farmers came, before the native were clearcut and the living land was carved into square plots of a single endless crop. It walks with the healers, whose prayer is constant as breath, and with the young women leading the Retomada, the return to ancestral land. The Guarani-Kaiowá are a people who refuse to vanish. Their story is a struggle for survival, but more than that: a love between a people and their earth, and a quiet, defiant invitation to the world to reforest not only the land, but the mind.
The film is part of the13-film documentary The Eternal Song. The series honors Indigenous resilience, illuminates sacred wisdom held for humanity and Earth, and invites healing across communities facing trauma and colonial erasure.
Suitable for:
Everyone
Practice environment:
Chairs, Cushions, benches, and blankets are available.
Donations and Registration:
The film is shown on Dana basis with a suggested donation of $12. No one turned away for lack of funds. Any dana collected beyond what is needed to cover the rental fees will be donated to the project portrayed in the film.
Space is limited so please register below. If you’d like to donate more, or separately, you can also do so online. Thank you!
Care:
Please take care of yourself and others. If you are feeling unwell or have symptoms of a contagious illness, we ask that you do not attend.