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Landless

2019 · 109 min

A patient, observational immersion into collective struggle, where small daily acts of resistance carry quiet weight and hope.

Directed by: Camila Freitas
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Natalina Vó Cândida, Wilmar P.C. Fernandes, Valtenir Gomes

Overview: Since 2015, the Landless Workers Movement has been occupying an indebted sugarcane factory's land to press for its redistribution through land reform. Grandma, P.C. and their encamped fellows struggle to conquer a small share of land where they can settle down and live a self-sustainable life, growing agro-ecological crops in a newly knit peasant community they draw in their dreams.

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Directed by: Camila Freitas
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Natalina Vó Cândida, Wilmar P.C. Fernandes, Valtenir Gomes

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Tone: earneststrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
survival
justice
family
politics
Places: countryside
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Realism	10
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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Camila Freitas
Written by: Marina Meliande, Camila Freitas
Starring: Natalina Vó Cândida, Wilmar P.C. Fernandes, Valtenir Gomes, Elizabett Conceição, José Bento Reginaldo Pires, Eliane Aparecida do Prado, Nelson Guedes
Music: Michelle Agnes, Célio de Barros
Cinematography: Carol Matias, Camila Freitas
Runtime: 109 min
Country: Brazil
Languages: Portuguese

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