The Territory
The battle for home.
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.
- 6.8
- 2022
- Released
- 1h 25m
Released
pt
$69,316.00
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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