Arquivo / 49th mostra

The documentary explores a Brazilian development project, initiated during the military dictatorship in the 1970s, which encouraged the “exploration” of northern Brazil by settlers from Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul. Based on a German-inspired festival held in Sinop, Mato Grosso, where an anonymous, fictional, and suspicious character wanders through forests and plantations, the film offers a free-form account of an immigration process that caused, and continues to cause, cultural, environmental, and political changes in a region once inhabited by diverse indigenous peoples.

First Worldwide Screening at the 49th Mostra.