The original Brazilian people preserve an ancient artistic tradition that draws attention for the way it combines functionality and beauty: the manual manufacture of wooden benches, carved directly from tree trunks and decorated with natural pigments and ornaments. They are very varied pieces, produced by different ethnic groups, but all of them exquisite objects of art and design, and which still preserve the religious and symbolic dimensions of the beliefs of each people.

The exceptionality of these pieces of art is brought to light by a documentary film that, in addition to presenting this little-known section of the art of Brazilian indigenous peoples, reveals yet another surprising layer: the similarities between this millenary tradition and another equally ancient culture, the Japanese. . Xingu/Tokyo: an ancestral connection presents an unexpected and uncontested approximation between two worlds, that of the indigenous peoples of the Xingu and the Japanese, as it walks through aspects of both traditions. According to Toyojiro Hida, Director General of the Metropolitan Teien Art Museum in Tokyo, there is a mythology according to which all Japanese people come from a single origin and, therefore, Japanese art is one. However, when discovering Brazilian indigenous benches, Hida challenges this theory: these indigenous objects are proof that distant cultures can share a common essence.