REVIEW, AUSTRALIA
Preview by Paul Benedek
26 July 2009
(Extract)
In the year of the brilliant Samson and Delilah, BIFF will bring a stream of films by or about Indigenous people, called Colourise films.
These include The Inheritors, which documents rural Mexico, capturing the dignity and humanity of people in the face of incredible exploitation. Both Roots and Birdwatchers tell a universal story of displacement from land and culture.
In the case of Roots, people are uprooted by the construction of the Dumbur Dam in India, which submerged huge areas of fertile land.
In Birdwatchers, a once proud Indigenous community in Brazil is broken up and forced to live on small allotments amid cattle ranches. Filmmakers and thinkers will discuss the issues of these films at the Colourise BIFF seminar.
BIFF promises to be ten days of intense, rewarding film experiences — see you in the theatres.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/804/41356
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