Battle for the Xingu

Directed by Iara Lee · 2009

In 2008, over a thousand Indigenous Brazilians gather in Altamira to oppose a massive hydroelectric dam threatening the Xingu River and their way of life.

A rare record of one of the largest Indigenous gatherings in Brazil's history.

🇧🇷The Xingu, a tributary of the Amazon, is home to over 10,000 Indigenous people who rely on the river for survival. But in the mid-2000s, the Brazilian government was keen to develop the region. It proposed constructing

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