Guardians of the Rainforest

Marianna Beltrami, Lia Beltrami

| Italy

| 00:52:00

4:00pm Saturday 1st March 2025

Amazon, Congo Basin, Borneo. A journey across rainforests. A collective song of Indigenous women’s voices as they share their stories, what the forest means to their very being, their fears in a reality of socio-ecological destruction, and their hopes for constructing something different.

Transcript

https://golarainforest.film/

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