7.2 / 10
(21 votes)
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.
Brazil,
Canada,
Denmark,
United States of America
Documentary
85 minutes
2022
Alex Pritz
Documist,
XTR,
TIME Studios,
Protozoa Pictures,
Passion Pictures,
Real Lava,
National Geographic Documentary Films