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The Territory
2022 · Alex Pritz · 1h 25m
- Emmy Winner 2023
- Sundance Audience Award 2022
- Sundance Grand Jury Prize 2022
The Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people have seen their population dwindle and their culture threatened since coming into contact with non-Native Brazilians. Though promised dominion over their own rainforest territory, they have faced illegal incursions from environmentally destructive logging and mining, and, most recently, land-grabbing invasions spurred on by right-wing politicians like President Jair Bolsonaro. With deforestation escalating as a result, the stakes have become global.
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