JUUNT PASTAZA ENTSARI
WATERS OF PASTAZA
Inês T. Alves / Portugal / 2022 / 62 min / Colour
Italian premiere
A boy and a girl move in the depths of the rainforest with agility and naturalness. Along the Pastaza River, on the border between Ecuador and Peru, they spend their days picking bananas, cutting reeds with machete, and climbing tree trunks. They live in intimacy with animals and plants, barefoot or wearing rubber boots. Inês T. Alves does not describe a life in a totally wild world, but she tells both of when the children play among the green vegetation and when, back in the village, they gather in front of the smartphone to watch a video: to say that a life in harmony with the environment can coexist with technology, as long as it does not become omnipresent and obsessive, and when one has learned from a very young age to know and live with Nature.
Inês T. Alves
A Portuguese director, she studied at the Nova University of Lisbon, at the universities of Santiago de Compostela and Bergamo and specialised in documentary direction at the University of Arts in London. Her short film, No ângulo das ruas, won the New Cinema Award at the Porto Film Festival. Her first feature, Juunt Pastaza entsari, was screened at the Berlin Film Festival.
Credits
Screenplay Inês T. AlvesSound Virgílio Oliveira, Giorgio GristinaEditing Inês T. AlvesProducer Ico Costa, Inês T. AlvesProduction company Oublaum Filmes
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