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The drought in Sao Paulo is the starting point of the journey. Unsettled by images of empty reservoirs in southeastern Brazil, a documentarist tries to understand these Pharaonic constructions, now being built in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. Between rivers Xingu, Tapajós, and Ene, voices of riparians, fishermen, and indigenous populations echo as they are trampled by the arrival of what we call development. A boat movie and a reflection on the impacts of our lifestyles.
Eliza Capai
She is a journalist and directed Severinas (short, 2013) no devagar depressa dos tempos (short, 2014), Here Is So Far (best film at the New Trends sidebar at Rio Film Festival 2013), and É proibido falar em Angola (medium, 2015). In 2016, she made two series for Canal Futura. One of them, Meses interinos, depicts the resistance during Dilma Rousseff’s “impeachment”.
