Short film · 2016
O Complexo
The Complex
Documentary · 26 min
Four hydropower dams on the Teles Pires River and the people the impact studies forgot.
- Best documentary · FBCI 2017
- Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival
Synopsis
The Teles Pires River, where the Cerrado meets the Amazon, received a complex of four large hydropower plants, a 3.3 billion real investment. The companies promised minimal environmental impact, but farmers, fishers, riverside dwellers and Indigenous people tell another story.
The film follows Daniel Schlindwein, a settler due to be displaced by the Sinop dam more than 30 years after his father was evicted by the Itaipu dam.
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Credits
- Director and editor
- Thiago Foresti
- Screenplay
- Thiago Foresti and João Andrade
- Cinematography
- Thiago Foresti and Attilio Zolin
- Production design
- Renato Moll
- Executive producer
- Amanda Fernandes
- Partners
- ICV and Fórum Teles Pires
Awards
- 4th Brazil International Film Festival (FBCI), 2017: best documentary
- Docs Without Borders Film Festival, USA, 2017: Outstanding Excellence
Selections
- PLANETA.Doc, Florianópolis, 2016 (premiere)
- 6th Cine Kurumin, Indigenous Film Festival, 2017
- Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival, Malaysia, 2017
- Green Film Festival, FilmAmbiente, 2018
- Porta Curtas, 2018
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