The Territory (2022)

PG08/19/2022Documentary1h 25m

The battle for home.

Overview

The Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people have seen their population dwindle and their culture threatened since coming into contact with non-Native Brazilians. Though promised dominion over their own rainforest territory, they have faced illegal incursions from environmentally destructive logging and mining, and, most recently, land-grabbing invasions spurred on by right-wing politicians like President Jair Bolsonaro. With deforestation escalating as a result, the stakes have become global.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Neidinha Bandeira

    Self

  2. Cast 1

    Bitaté Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

    Self

  3. Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

    Self

  4. Cast 1

    Txai Suruí

    herself

What I rather appreciated about this documentary film is that it presents us with a couple of perspectives to the dilemma faced by both the indigenous Uru Eu Wau Wau tribe and of the would-be farmers who are bent on deforestation in Brazil's remote Amazon rainforest. The former live on their ostensibly "protected" territory, constantly vigilant to the aspirations of the encroaching people who burn down and clear tracts of land for cattle farming. Illegal their behaviour may be, but the attitude of those loyal to the Bolsonara government in Brasilia do little to enforce the status of their rese...

Status Released

Original LanguagePortuguese 

Budget-

Revenue $69,316.00

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