BirdWatchers (2008)

Recommended

Brazil/Italy

Feature Film

Original Title: Terra vermelha

Director: Marco Bechis

Writers: Marco Bechis, Luiz Bolognesi, Lara Fremder

Cinematographer: Hélcio Alemão Nagamine

Composer: Andrea Guerra

Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Alicélia Batista Cabreira, Chiara Caselli, Abrísio da Silva Pedro, Matheus Nachtergaele, Ambrósio Vilhava, Ademilson Concianza Verga, Leonardo Medeiros, Eliane Juca da Silva, Fabiane Pereira da Silva

When two of their number commit suicide, a tribe of Guarani Indians determine to leave the reserve and return to their ancestral lands, which are now farmland, meeting unsurprisingly with resistance and hostility, as they attempt to regain their dignity and eke out a living, in Bechis’s impassioned and angry yet unromanticised and thoroughly authentic feeling look at the plight of the Amerindians. Iain.Stott