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O2 Play, one of Brazil’s most active international distributors, has acquired worldwide rights to “Nimuendajú,” an impactful 2D animated biopic of Germany’s Curt Unckel, a pioneering defender of Brazil’s Indigenous communities.

Also set to distribute “Nimuendajú” in Brazil, O2 Play has shared an international trailer in exclusivity with Variety.

In a double market strategy, O2 Play’s head Igor Kupstas will host a market screening at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film before “Nimuendajú” plays the prestigious Contrechamp section at June’s Annecy Animation Festival whose artistic director Marcel Jean has hailed the film as “astonishing.”

The debut feature of Minas Gerais-based Tania Anaya “Nimuendajú” boasts at times the delicacy of much 2D Brazilian animation – think the Oscar-nominated “The Boy and the World” – especially when it pictures Amazon forest landscapes. But its tones are darker and more strident capturing moments of violence, or when it...