Isle of Flowers (1989)

Original title

Ilha das Flores

Directed by

Jorge Furtado

Genre

documentary film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

13 min

Rating

8.2 of 10 from 228 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short film follows a single tomato from the grower through the market and into a garbage dump. It ends up with a child who collects food from the trash, with voiceover and images showing the journey's economic and social meaning.

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What happens

Isle of Flowers (Portuguese: Ilha das Flores) is a 1989 Brazilian short film by Jorge Furtado. It tracks the path of a tomato from grower to the child who collects it as food from a dump with the help of voiceover and a collection of illustrative images. The director stated the film was inspired by the works of Kurt Vonnegut and Alain Resnais, among others. In 1995, Isle of Flowers was chosen by the European critics as one of the 100 most important short films of the century. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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