Birdwatchers
Drama
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2008
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Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest camp on the borders of a local farm that sits on their ancestral burial ground.
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Runtime:
104 min
Release date:
31 Aug 2008
Country:
BR, IT
Languages:
English, Guaraní, Portuguese
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
3 wins & 5 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Bechis, a former political exile from Argentina with a clear anti-colonialist bent, may be angered by the Guarani's plight, but his movie - like these people - is contemplative, patient and forcefully determined.
– Geoff Pevere,
Toronto Star,
3 Feb 2011
fresh:
Birdwatchers is impressively filmed and never less than interesting. If it has a weakness, it's that this is a familiar sermon: Save the rain forest. Respect its inhabitants.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
7 Jan 2010
fresh:
Momentarily, it feels as if the Guarani could win this fight and maybe give it to globalization on the shins.
– Justin Berton,
San Francisco Chronicle,
16 Oct 2009
fresh:
Writer-director-producer Marco Bechis's absorbing story of struggle and survival carries its committed ethnographic and political passions lightly.
– Wally Hammond,
Time Out,
18 Sep 2009