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DESCRIPTION:SFFS Screen Presents: Birdwatchers\nShowing October 16-22\nSundance Kabuki 
 Cinema\n(1881 Post st and Fillmore st)\n\nBirdwatchers (La terra degli 
 uomini rossi, Italy/Brazil 2008), a striking and powerful film exposing the 
 plight of a native Brazilian tribe and dramatizing its struggles to reclaim 
 ancestral land from indifferent plantation owners.\nAt the edge of the 
 imposing but dwindling forest in the southern Brazilian state of Mato 
 Grosso do Sul, a small group of Guaraní/Kaiowá Indians attempts to 
 reclaim their ancestral lands by any means necessary. Forced to leave the 
 reservation due to extreme poverty and suicide, the Guaraní are no longer 
 willing to accept the authority of the wealthy white farmers who claim to 
 own the land. An explosive tension develops as the Guaraní establish a 
 makeshift settlement on the borders of a plantation, and the group’s 
 apprentice shaman, Osvaldo, senses the presence of the evil spirit Anguè 
 hovering at the edge of the forest. Osvaldo also encounters another danger 
 in the local farmer’s daughter, whose interest in him is far from 
 antagonistic. With Birdwatchers, director Marco Bechis subverts the usual 
 conventions of films about native peoples by portraying his Guaraní 
 protagonists as conflicted, spiritual individuals who have been forced into 
 a corner by centuries of land grabs. Furious in its politics and its 
 beauty, the film plays almost like The Grapes of Wrath by way of Werner 
 Herzog’s Aguirre, while remaining startlingly original.” —Travis 
 Miles, LAFF\n\nWritten by Bechis, Luiz Bolognesi. Photographed by Hélcio 
 Alemão Nagamine. With Claudio Santamaria, Chiara Caselli, Matheus 
 Nachtergaele, Leonardo Medeiros. In Guarani and Portuguese with English 
 subtitles. (100 min, IFC Films)\n\nTickets $8-$14\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/25/18623283.php
SUMMARY:SFFS Screen Presents: Birdwatchers
LOCATION:Sundance Kabuki Cinema\n1881 Post st\nSan Francisco, Ca 94115
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/25/18623283.php
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