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- "History is the fruit of power, but power it self is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots." Michel-Rolph Trouillot Men and plants have always traveled together in a reciprocal relationship that - for better or for worse - has drastically transformed the world. The mythical cacao tree, native to the Amazon Basin, has spread throughout the world along the narrow equatorial belt. Planted on a large scale using forced labor, the history of cacao has always been linked to the dark side of industrial production and the greed of the mass markets. The director Margarida Cardoso ("The Murmuring Coast", "Yvone Kane", "Kuxa Kanema, the birth of Cinema", "Christmas 71") follows the path of his previous films, exploring and revealing the relations between the brutality of colonial history and its effects in the present. She organizes in these "Botanic Tales" an extraordinary personal essay on a plant - the cocoa tree - and all its cultural and economic ramifications. Traveling through Sao Tome and Principe, England and Brazil, the director walks past and present, dismantling the schemes of European colonial oppression and investigating the possibilities of a fair exploitation of the plant. And in the various corners of the world, it is the women who bring about change. An alternate story, which is a her-story and an understory. A reflection on a world in the shade.
- The Huni Kuin are a remote indigenous tribe of est. 10,000 people living in the Brazilian part of the Amazon Jungle. They try and live in peace and harmony within themselves, their neighboring tribes and the ecosystem. The psychedelic brew, Ayahuasca, is a key part of their spirituality. Every Saturday they gather for a tribal Ayahuasca ceremony where they go on a night long psychedelic inner vision quest. The Huni Kuin were so concerned about the effects deforestation and climate change was having on the rain forest around them, they held a 3 day tribal gathering and Ayahuasca ceremony to pray.
- It is not known if the beginning or the end of the world.
- Balloon twister Addi Somekh sees colors and shapes coming out of your head, and brings his visions to life in the form of elaborate sculptural balloon hats. He meets a photographer, Charlie Eckert, who shares his weariness at the barrage of violent images driving the global media. When Charlie offhandedly suggests bringing the balloon hats to random people around the world, Addi agrees, and the two of them set out on a journey to create a photo art book drawn from their adventures. Laden with backpacks full of balloons and cameras, Addi, a Silicon Valley slacker and Charlie, a Queens, New Yorker, forgo life in America during the dot.com boom to prove their thesis: people everywhere need joy to survive, whether it be the Balkan States in the aftermath of war, the strife-ridden Middle East, or the forgotten jungles of the developing world. As BALLOONHAT travels through different countries, it reveals not only the travails of a grassroots art project, but also America's changing status on the world stage. Each new culture's embrace of their balloon art - from Rio's beaches to the rubble of Sarajevo - stands in stark contrast to the narrowed world view Addi and Charlie find upon their return as they seek an outlet to spread the beauty of their project, and instead are forced to confront the realities of a post-millennial America.
- CAMINHOS é um jeito novo de descobrir o Brasil na sua extensão geográfica, econômica e político-social. Mas, sobretudo, em sua dimensão afetiva e humana. ON THE MOVE innovates by exposing Brazil in all its geographical, economic, and sociopolitical extension. And, above all, by bringing the emotional and human dimensions to light.
- Archaeologists have been excavating a ring of mounds surrounding a central plaza within a territory currently known as the State of Acre, Brazil. They transition from field to laboratory, interpreting how the land was constructed, what patterns were employed in settlement land use, and the composition of the anthropogenic earth that remains.
- Investigators head to Rio de Janeiro, where German journalist Karl Brugger was shot to death in broad daylight; in the jungle, a violent flood threatens to derail the search for Akakor.