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Sunday, January 17, 2010 @ 6.00 pm

(15) | Marco Bechis | Italy | Brazil | 2008 | 104’ | Cast | Awards

Marco Bechis avoids the usual clichés in his stunning portrait of a Brazilian tribe on the verge of extinction. In Mato Grosso do Sol tension is rising between the wealthy farming classes and the workers on their land – the indigenous Guarani-Kaiowá. When a suicide takes place it stirs up a rebellion in which both sides are forced to face each other, clashing both ideologically and physically. The real life Amerindian cast had never acted before, yet deliver emotionally engaging and thought provoking performances, shot and directed with sympathy, flair and vigor.

Portread trawiadol am lwyth o Frasil sydd ar fin difodiant. Mae tensiwn yn cynyddu rhwng y ffermwyr ariannog a’u gweithwyr, sef y llwyth brodorol, gan arwain at wrthdaro. Nid yw’r cast o Amerindiaid wedi actio o’r blaen, ond cawn ganddynt berfformiadau gafaelgar sy’n peri i ni feddwl.

“writer-director-producer Marco Bechis’s absorbing story of struggle and survival carries its committed ethnographic and political passions lightly.” Time Out

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