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Aterro (2011)

Aterro poster
Directed by
Marcelo Reis, Patricia Vieira
Genre
documentary film
Country
Brazil
Runtime
1h 12m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This Brazilian documentary focuses on seven women who were early pioneers of waste picking. They talk about their work and the fate of trash in a city where garbage overflowed its landfill.

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What happens

Aterro é um filme documentário brasileiro de 2011, dirigido por Marcelo Reis. Belo Horizonte é uma cidade planejada, construída e inaugurada sob os preceitos progressistas no final do século XIX. Em cerca de meio século, sua produção de lixo ultrapassou os limites do sistema de gestão de resíduos e todo o lixo passou a ser jogado a céu aberto a menos de 5 km do centro da cidade. Aterro é um filme sobre sete mulheres pioneiras da catação de lixo no Brasil. Diante do atual e controverso sistema de aterragem, elas falam do aparente inevitável destino do lixo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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