Índios, Memória de uma CPI

This short documentary presents a brief view on a congressional hearing works related with the situation of Brazilian indigenous people right after the creation of an organization that protects their culture and territorial space, among other things, and one congressman who was part of the meetings plus one anthropologist share their views on that report. Along with their 2002 interviews, we have audios from the CPI and archive images from native leaderships sharing their experience while suffering severe cases of attacks, rapes and killings by rural workers and farmers, and the whole situation faced by communities that kept disappearing over the decades.

While the presentation is somewhat boring, specially concerning those who were dealing with the topic most recently, the old films with the indians are a rich and informative material that deserves some special attention. 21 years after the rememberances of such hearings and how politicians were baffled to see the conditions faced by the natives, one must take new perspectives on the issue since then one can say things haven't changed much, though there were some progresses, but most recently the Marco Temporal (Milestone Thesis) was approved which dictates what can be considered as an indigenous territory or not, based on the 1988 Constitution, and that gave many breaches to landowners to claim such territories in order to explore the land, destroy the environment among other things, and simply throw away native people who lived their whole lives in the place.

A quite interesting picture for those who want to evaluate better some discussion on the forementioned themes, nothing mor. 7/10.