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Naga: The Last Headhunters
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Naga: The Last Headhunters

48 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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The Naga once ruled the mountain ranges dividing north-eastern India from Burma, and headhunting was central to their culture until missionaries and colonial pressure drove it underground. This film follows Visier Sanyu, a Naga historian, as he crosses the mountain barrier to find relatives among the Khiamnugan Naga, the People of the Great Sources, one of the most isolated tribes left in Burma. His goal is the Laimke ritual, a ceremony meant to seal a pact of friendship between separated branches of the same people. The return of a sacred drum to the village becomes the film's central image, marking what the Naga themselves frame as a cultural renaissance after decades of erosion from evangelism and incursions by the Burmese army. Interviews with village elders and Sanyu's own reflections trace what survives of the old warrior codes and skull-taking traditions, and what has been replaced by Christianity and state pressure. The film treats the Naga not as a relic but as a people actively deciding what to keep.