The people who live along Brazil’s Xingu River are facing man-made Armageddon. The massive Belo Monte Dam, one of the world’s most contested infrastructure projects, has caused untold ecological and social devastation throughout the entire region, displacing more than 40,000 local residents. Director Rog´rrio Soares travels into this mythic and brutalized world to encounter some of its most vulnerable and inspiring inhabitants. Blending informed analysis with Baroque aesthetics and Latin American magic realism, he crafts an arresting and poetic river movie, offering a rare and deeply empathetic look into the lives of people caught in the ruinous path of “disaster development.”
Raimunda Gomes da Silva, Tamakwera Parakanã, Karliane Lopes de Souza, Francinete Pinto Novaes, Ana Paula Pinto Novaes
- Written and directed by Rogério Soares
- Cinematography: Glauco Bermudez, Aldo Oviedo Tejo
- Editor: Ryan Mullins
- Composer: Nicole Lizée
- Sound Design: Catherine Van Der Donckt, Benoît Dame, Jeremie Jones
- Producers: Annette Clarke (NFB), Bob Moore (EyeSteelFilm)
- Executive Producers: Mila Aung-Thwin, Daniel Cross
- Executive Producer, TVO: Jane Jankovic
- Rain International Nature Film Festival - Kumarakam, 2020 - Crystal Hornbill for the Best Documentary Film
- Canadian Feature Documentary Hot Docs - Toronto, 2019 - Honourable Mention for the DGC Special Jury Prize
- DocsMx (Mexico, Mexico) 2019
- Doqumenta (Querétaro, Mexico) 2019
- Bergen internasjonale filmfestival (Norway) 2019
- Films from the South (FFS) (Oslo, Norway) 2019
- FIFAC, Festival international du film documentaire Amazonie/Caraïbes (Saint Laurent du Maroni, Guyane) 2019
- Anthropological Film Festival (Jerusalem, Israel) 2019
- Atlantidoc - Festival internacional de cine documental de Uruguay (Canelones, Uruguay) 2019
- Film 4 Climate (Guadalajara, Mexico)
- Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2020
- Rain International Nature Film Festival (Kerala, India) 2020
