Mãe Stella de Oxóssi

The friendship between Jorge Amado, Dorival Caymmi, and Carybé, artists who were largely responsible for creating an image of the culture of Bahia that persists to this day, and who believed that the strength of their work lay in documenting what they saw on the streets.

The film presents Stella Of Oxossi, Iyalorisha of lle Axe OPo Afonja (a Camdomble temple founded in 1910), who tells the stories of Camdomble and her life in an exclusive and brilliant interview about matriarchal societies, the cult of Shango, syncretism and the future of Camdomble.