De inheemse Uru-eu-wau-wau-bevolking heeft hun bevolking zien slinken en hun cultuur bedreigd sinds ze in contact kwamen met niet-inheemse Brazilianen. Hoewel hen de heerschappij over hun eigen regenwoud gebied was beloofd, hebben ze te maken gehad met illegale invallen door milieu vernietigende houtkap en mijnbouw, en, meest recentelijk, landroof invasies, aangespoord door rechtse politici als president Jair Bolsonaro. Nu de ontbossing als gevolg daarvan escaleert, zijn de belangen mondiaal geworden.
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THE TERRITORY initially gripped me with its striking sound & visuals. I then was pushed towards anger & heartbreak by the staggering story of the genocide being committed on the indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people & the deforestation in Brazil. A vital piece of filmmaking, supremely shot, edited & expressed.Sundance #69
Every once in a while, a film comes along that simultaneously elevates your anger and evaporates your hope, while pulling you to believe, against all logic, that maybe, if the right people win, the inevitability of our species’ bleak end can still be blotted out. Alex Pritz’s urgent, visually spellbinding plea, “The Territory,” surveying the fight being waged by invading land grabbers and the tiny Indigenous Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau tribe in Brazil, rises to those heights. The Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau tribe once lived a simple, isolated existence. In the 1980s, the Brazilian government made contact with them. Since then, the population has decreased from thousands to fewer to 200 people, and their homeland, the Amazon rainforest, is quickly being deforested by farmers and land grabbers looking to illegally seize the land for “improvement.” [full review via RogerEbert]
"It’s important to record, because then you have a weapon."It's quite possible that the opportunity to watch this in theaters has inflated my rating & opinion of The Territory...but if it convinces anyone who's on the fence to do the same, then it's a win-win.This film is remarkably cinematic in visual style & sound design, & when applied to such unadulterated beauty - like a young indigenous leader & his butterfly entourage - the experience is utterly captivating.The trust bestowed upon Alex Pritz by the endangered Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau inhabitants of The Amazon Rainforest, Neidinha (the head of the nonprofit whose made it her life's work to defend them), members of "the association", & "the settlers" is ASTOUNDING, & Pritz covets it in his accessibly empathetic presentation of these oppositional parties. While avoiding moral conviction within reason, the implication remains clear: the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau & The Amazon are the ones in dire straits.Watching this film put me on a rollercoaster of intense emotions that had me stress-eating & vaping throughout the runtime. Yet in the moments between arresting anxiety, worry, fear, & anguish I found myself overwhelmed with wonder & amazement. As dumb as it is, I forget that there are people who live in oneness with nature in remote corners of the world like The Amazon. These people preserve their history & ours in sacred practices of natural ordinance that championed our species into eras of innovation. & Now that innovation is killing the last of this land & the last of its people. This film covers events from October 2018 - August 2020. Between a particularly disheartening devastation endured by the subjects of this film & the introduction of the pandemic as yet another threat, I maintained a steady trickle of tears for the last 20-30min. & I'm pretty fkn far from what would be considered a conservationist (in action, not belief), so having such an intense reaction was very unexpected & very earned through fabulous filmmaking.The last documentary to move me with such profound force was Collective. & What puts this a notch ahead is that I would absolutely rewatch this film. Don't get me wrong - this is not an easy watch. It's aesthetically stunning & unceasingly engaging, but it is extremely frustrating & frightening, as well. & I cannot recommend it enough.🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹Best of 2022PS: Darren Aronofsky produced this.PPS: even tho I beg you to see this in theaters if possible, it's available online 🙈
De documentaire volgt de inheemse Uru-eu-wau-wau in het Braziliaanse deel van het Amazonegebied in hun strijd tegen illegale landjonkers, houtkippers en politieke druk die hun regenwoudgebied en cultuur bedreigen.
De film is geregisseerd door Alex Pritz en markeert zijn speelfilmdebuut als documentairemaker in 2022.
Ja, de documentaire ontving lovende kritieken en won verschillende prijzen, waaronder onderscheidingen op het Sundance Film Festival.
