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- Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.
- When Paula leaves Rio de Janeiro to resume her work as a volunteer doctor in the Amazon, Teto hatches an impulsive plan to follow her and chaos ensues.
- A party of explorers in the Amazon jungle are captured by a tribe of women, and learn that they are to be used as the tribe's "love slaves."
- The origin story of Tainá, an orphaned little indian girl destined to be a warrior, protector of her jungle.
- "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.
- In the Brazilian megacity São Paulo athletes from around the world run the traditional New Year's marathon. At the same time in an Amazonian jungle backwater 19-year-old Jô is running like a world champion. He has skipped town with the generous New Year's collection from the church and is being followed by the out-of-breath town sheriff Rui, a fan of the marathon. By pure luck he manages to capture Jô. Rui may have missed the race on TV, but not talented runner Jô. In the cell sit Jô and a dream. He trains Jô for a year until he is at his peak performance. They then make the long journey to São Paulo. Sheriff Rui sends his prisoner and marathon man Jô into the big race, the legendary New Year's marathon of 1999, the race into the year 2000. Surprises await.
- A story inspired in life, dreams and thoughts of a Brazilian Pajé, a healer of Amazon forest.
- Today in Detroit (USA), an American woman trying to understand her recurring dreams and searching for explanations, she finds out that she lived another life in the early 30ies during "Fordlandia's construction saga by Henry Ford ". Our character is now a Brazilian woman, who experienced an intense and forbidden love with an American project manager of Fordlandia. Even, finishing his failed wedding, this love will awaken a disproportionate anger on his ex-wife that will (along with her lover) go extreme to separate them.On this journey to the past, she found out that her romance was brutally interrupted by the sudden murder of her beloved. Back in the present time, she discovers that her great love of the past is also here and right next to her. They are reunited to finally live this love that crossed time and will remain in their hearts for eternity.
- A group of Italians explore the jungles of South America.
- The writer Pia and the painter Gil live by the Rio Negro deep in the Amazon jungle. One night, during a lunar eclipse, Pia is murdered. Her death plunges Gil into a world of shadows. He leaves the town by the river and does not return to the house he shared with Pia until two years later. There, Pia is present in the flood of memories that keep coming back to him, and also lives on deep in his heart. This love, the comfort it brings him, and the girl Elsa lead him out of the darkness and back into the light, back to life. And he will meet Pia's murderer. 'Eclipse' is a love story set against the background of a crime: compelling, poetic, and delicately told.
- A documentary that shows the impacts of the construction of the Belo Monte plant on the Xingu River in Pará, Brazil.
- This is the story of Nilton and Fernando, who work as pilots in Amazonia, a film about flying as a dream and a passion, a job and a fate.
- The daily life of professionals who make their living at sea on different boats.
- Amazonia, 1903. German explorer Theodor Koch-Grünberg travels from Manaus up the Rio Negro, a formidable river and biggest tributary of the Amazon, to its headwaters on the equator. He enters an Indio region as large as Germany, a world of water an forest called Dog's Head. For three years he lives among the natives, seeks out encounters, passionately writes down myths and legends and takes photographs. Ninety years later the same journey. Five Indios return from Manaus to their villages in the immense forest. They travel for four weeks, by ship, motorboat and canoe. Days are spent under the equatorial sun and nights under the Southern Cross. 'Jaguar and Rain' takes a journey into innermost Amazonia, switching from past to present. In the Amazonian cosmos 'the jaguar speaks with the rain'.
- A 1992 expedition of Portuguese and Brazilian scientists through Amazonia reproduces a Portuguese Naturalist's Journey in the 1800's, noting how time changes the places, nature, and people, comparing the earlier explorer notes with their own similar experience.
- A portrait of life along the banks of the Amazon River, encapsulated in messages of all kinds: wedding announcements, invitations, birthday greetings, messages of love or of debts unpaid...
- Large uncontrolled fires and flames have severely damaged the Amazon rainforests of Brazil in the summer of 2019 and destroyed countless trees. The main cause of the fires seems to be the man-made slash-and-burn. The drought, which has lasted for months, favors the situation. Likewise, the radical policy of the new Brazilian government under right-wing populist President Jair Bolsonaro contributes to the destruction of the Amazon jungles. When the green lung of the earth burns, not only experts and international politicians are terrified. Protecting the world's unique ecosystem is of vital importance to all people of the world. The film examines the current environmental and humanitarian catastrophe in the Amazon region and gives voice to environmental activists as well as relativizing proponents of the fires.
- El Dorado, the myth and mirage of the golden man, still attracts desperadoes and starvelings into the Amazonian jungle--wild men who go about their search for the golden treasure as if in a dream, ecstatically, and with brute force. This is a story of likeable crackpots and underhanded cutthroats, of miserable drudgery, desperate lust for life, and a game that others always win in the end. An Indio who loves Campari and India, a former circus princess, become friends and eke out a living together. They make the dangerous journey from the gold fields deep in the jungle to the concrete jungle of São Paulo. 'Goldland' mixes fact and fiction, the authenticity of the characters and places, and a made-up story. This comes together in a unified whole of reality and poetry.
- In June 2008, a 26 yr old runner ventured deep into the Gobi Desert to compete in one of the toughest endurance events on the Planet - a 7-day, 250km, self-supporting foot race through some of the harshest terrain on earth. It was the first Ultra-Marathon Ryan Sandes had ever run. He won every stage... Shattering perceptions on what was possible in the running world. Overnight and single-handed, Ryan had put trail running on the map in South Africa. Four months later Ryan won every stage of the Sahara Desert race and established himself as one of the best endurance athletes in the world. 'Wandering Fever' is the personal story of a young South African, Ryan Sandes, and his journey in becoming the first person in history to win all 4Deserts (which Time Magazine has rated no.2 in the Top 10 Toughest Endurance Events in the world), and arguably the best multi-stage Ultra-Marathon runner on earth.
- Think your tough? You ain't seen nothin' yet. Worldies celebrates the top 5 toughest Red Bull challenges out there. Includes: The toughest downhill mountain bike race on the planet: Red Bull Hardline. Red Bull 400: where hardcore athletes are challenged to run 400 metres UP a ski jump. The most pysically and mentally demanding motorbike race on the planet: Red Bull Hare Scramble. The torturous adventure relay race Red Bull Amazonia Kirimbawa. Red Bull X-Apls: a grueling 645 mile race across the length of the Alps, where competitors can use only 2 modes of transport - hike or glide.
- Climbers Leo Houlding, Jason Pickles and Sean Leary trek deep into the Amazon, venturing to be the first to ascend the east face of the impressive Cerro Autana. In a trip filled with risk and enlightenment, these free spirits soon discover a host of reasons why this summit has never been reached from the east.