ND/NF 2009 Program Overview Amreeka We Live in Public $9.99 Autumn Barking Water Birdwatchers Can Go Through Skin Cold Souls The Cove Every Little Step The Fly Give Me Your Hand Harmony and Me Home Louise-Michel The Maid Mid-August Lunch The Milk of Sorrow Ordinary Boys Paper Soldier Parque vía The Shaft Stay the Same... Treeless Mountain Unmade Beds Teaming Up Ticket Info About Submissions Past ND/NF Festivals

Birdwatchers / BirdWatchers – La terra degli uomini rossi Series: New Directors/New Films 2009 Director: Marco Bechis, Country: Italy/Brazil, Release: 2008, Runtime: 108 "[U]pends traditional notions about the noble savagery of indigenous people." -Time Out New York The initial scene in this ferociously perceptive docudrama expertly sets up the insurmountable schism of Them and Us: the indigenous Guarani Indians playact a tourist version of themselves to be gawked at by boating eco-tourists brought to the Amazon by wealthy Brazilian ranchers to enrich their already full coffers. This is one of the countless ways the Indians are humiliated and exploited, so when they are once more displaced, their shaman decides that it’s time they re-inhabit their ancestral land, which has been deforested and made into fields for the resident white landowner. As the myths and realities of daily life are brought devastatingly to life and highlighted by striking visual contrasts of vast cultivated fields and lush forests and riverbeds, the two irreconcilable sides engage in metaphorical and actual war fueled by poverty and fear. An IFC Films release.

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