FICC Award

CURSED LEGACY by Tomás Amaral
Brazil, 1h53′
Two huge environmental crimes committed by mining companies have marked the last decade in Brazil. Starting from these tragedies, the documentary tackles the theme of mining, researching its impacts on land, water and people.

BE WATER – ANDES TO AMAZONIA by Julia Blagny
Bolivia, 52′
Water is the essence of all life. Draw the Earth and the history of mankind. But it can turn into danger and even poison. The rivers of Bolivia, veins of the heart of South America, are turning black, red or even disappearing.

RADJI by Georg Götmark and John Erling Utsi
Sweden-Norway, 57′
Simon and Beatrice, a Swedish/Norwegian-Sami couple, are struggling to raise their children and survive as reindeer herders, despite the fact that their reindeer pastures are divided by the national border between the two countries. It is a film about the harsh vastness of nature, national identity, bureaucracy, cultural heritage and a pending lawsuit against the Norwegian government which will decide the future of the reindeer herders of Saarivouma.

THE WIND BLOWS THE BORDER by Laura Faerman and Marina Weis
Brazil, 1h18′
The story takes place on the violent and devastated border between Brazil and Paraguay, in the Ñande Ru Marangatu Indigenous Territory – land disputed by the Guarani-Kaiowá, who have inhabited the region for at least 1500 years, and the farmers who arrived there in the 1940s. Starting from this dispute, the film closely follows the growth of the farmers’ political power and its links with the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. At the same time, it portrays the intimacy of the indigenous female resistance, with its collective ideals and the struggle for the planet.