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River Silence

Brazil • 1h 32m

Directed by Rogério Soares • Documentary • With Raimunda Gomes Da Silva, Tamakwera Parakana, Karliane Lopes De Souza, Francinete Pinto Novaes, Ana Paula Pinto Novaes • 2019 • 92 minutes

The Belo Monte Dam, one of the world’s biggest and most controversial infrastructure projects, is causing massive ecological and social devastation along Brazil’s Xingu River. Director Rogério Soares travels into this mythic and brutalized world to encounter some of its most vulnerable and inspiring inhabitants.

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