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Submerged in the sea of greenwashing that drowns them daily, two Amazonian filmmakers have decided to denounce, in this film manifesto, the entrails of the historical process of inventing and exploiting the forest as an inexhaustible Garden of Eden. Between Munich and Belém, they reveal how racism and prejudice, in Brazil and throughout the world, are still organised around the idea of a “savage demographic emptiness”, unable to speak for itself.
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00:02I've got an email here that you're not going to like at all, you know?
00:07Unfortunator.
00:10Brush number of state.
00:15The observation from that American guy, we have to have a consult.
00:43I mean, you can't think that abolitionists weren't racist, right?
00:47You can't.
00:49Even Charles Darwin himself believed in races and hierarchies among humans.
00:53To him, both the Amazonian and Patagonian indigenous people were inferior to Europeans.
00:58He just didn't think they should be enslaved because of it.
01:18I've arrived here.
01:20There's nothing.
01:22It's unbelievable.
01:23Out of all the museum's collections, this is the only one nobody can see.
01:28It's very strange.
01:39You know, it was a lot of work and a lot of studies so that we could say what we're
01:43saying.
01:45I don't think we should change anything at all.
01:58Amazon sort of thing.
01:59It's very strange.
02:01It's very strange.
02:02There, there.
02:04Thank you.
02:09It's very strange.
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