AMAZÔNIA: VOZES DA FLORESTA (AMAZONIA: STIMMEN AUS DEM REGENWALD) 

Roughly 900 indigenous groups used to live in the Amazon regions of Brazil. Over 700 had been violently wiped out by the time this film was made. The remaining groups remain under threat. Indigenous people, rubber tappers, landless persons and small farmers speak about their lives, the threat to their homes and livelihoods, the rainforest as the elixir of life for everyone, and the industrial exploitation of nature. Switkes’ and Aguirre’s film is an activist indictment of neocolonial conditions, a remarkable time capsule full of resistance, brought all the more alive by Egberto Gismonti’s music.