Dual forces of climate change and cultural genocide overlap to devastating effect in “The Territory,” threatening not just a native community but a wider ecosystem — and cheered on by t…
’s documentary immerses us over the course of three years in the lives, livelihoods and dwindling homeland of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people, whose supposedly protected patch of Amazon rainforest is under attack from all sides by farmers, miners and settlers who think nothing of deforesting swaths of jungle that don’t belong to them.
“The Amazon is not just the heart of Brazil, but of the whole world.” So says Bitate, an 18-year-old Uru-eu-wau-wau chosen by his elders to lead the community’s outward-facing Jupau Association — responsibility for defending their land from opposing forces thus coming to rest on his slender shoulders. The Amazon is certainly the whole world he has ever known, even as it visibly shrinks around him.
With more urgent stakes come more visceral tactics. Violence is doled out from both sides of the territory’s challenged border, as Carlos Rojas Felice’s editing hits a rattling procedural rhythm. Leading the charge on the Uru-eu-wau-wau is the Association of Rio Bonito, a ruthless collective of land invaders convinced that “the Indians” have too much. Matters reach a head when respected Uru-eu-wau-wau member Ari is killed in the clashes, though no peace talks are forthcoming.
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