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The Territory (12A)
Directed by Alex Pritz
THE FILM follows Bitate, a young indigenous leader who rallies his people to fight against the land grabbing farmers and illegal settlers who, encouraged by the right-wing administration of Jair Bolsonaro, enter their “legally” protected territory in the Brazilian Amazon and seize land.
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