Fresh
Bechis, a former political exile from Argentina with a clear anti-colonialist bent, may be angered by the Guarani's plight, but his movie - like these people - is contemplative, patient and forcefully determined.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Overview
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest camp on the borders of a local farm that sits on their ancestral burial ground.
Director and cast
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96%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Birdwatchers is impressively filmed and never less than interesting. If it has a weakness, it's that this is a familiar sermon: Save the rain forest. Respect its inhabitants.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Momentarily, it feels as if the Guarani could win this fight and maybe give it to globalization on the shins.
Justin Berton, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Writer-director-producer Marco Bechis's absorbing story of struggle and survival carries its committed ethnographic and political passions lightly.
Wally Hammond, Time Out
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