NCLAFF: Amazônia, a nova minamata?

Introduced by Gustavo Furtado, Romance Studies at Duke. With the presence of the director, Jorge Bodansky

Free and open to the public.

Dir. by Jorge Bodansky. Brazil. 2022. 75 min. Portuguese, Munduruku with English subtitles.

The documentary tracks the saga of the Munduruku people, who live on the banks of the Amazon. There, the use of illegally sourced mercury in gold mining is irreversibly threatening the health of their communities and ancestral territories. Fearing the reenactment of the tragic health consequences of mercury poisoning detected in people living in Minamata in Japan in the 1950s, Alessandra Korap and her fellow community leaders invite doctors and researchers to investigate.

Shown with short film, "El origen de la tierra / Hant quij iti cötpacta ipatjc hac." Dir. by Gabriela Badillo. México. 2017. 1 min. (Seri) Cmiique iitom (Punta Chueca, Sonora) with English Subtitles. Based on popular Seri story. Basado en un cuento seri de tradición popular.