The Territory (2022)

Directed by

Alex Pritz

Genre

documentary

Country

Brazil, Denmark, United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary that follows a young Indigenous leader in the Amazon rainforest as he and his community resist farmers and settlers who are invading their protected land. The film uses footage shot by the Uru-eu-wau-wau people themselves to show the conflict from their perspective.

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What happens

The Territory is a 2022 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Alex Pritz. It follows a young Indigenous leader of the Uru-eu-wau-wau people fighting back against farmers, colonizers and settlers who encroach on a protected area of the Amazon rainforest. Filmed on location in Brazil from 2018 to 2020, the film utilizes almost exclusively on-the-ground, primary source material, including footage produced directly by the Uru-eu-wau-wau. Darren Aronofsky serves as a producer under his Protozoa Pictures banner. The film had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2022. It was released in select cities in the United States and Canada on August 19, 2022, by National Geographic Documentary Films and Picturehouse. It was shortlisted for the 95th Academy Awards in the Best Documentary Feature category, and won Exceptional Merit In Documentary Filmmaking at the 75th Emmy Awards. The film received critical acclaim for its cinematography and for the authentic portrayal of rising tensions between Indigenous peoples and settlers in contemporary Brazil. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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