The Territory
- heavy
- intense
Heavy, steady, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
Our read · The Territory (2022) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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