

The Territory

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.
[DOK.fest '22] Although it sometimes forces the construction of the docu-thriller, it offers an uncompromising look at the extinction of indigenous people. But it's more accurate when it adopts the point of view of the protagonists, through the filming of their patrols against deforestation, than when it uses the most commercial instruments to denounce, once again, the destruction of the natural lung of our planet.