Honourable Mention—DGC Special Jury Prize – Canadian Feature Documentary
Woefully, Raimunda bends down and brushes the dirt off broken tiles stuck in the mud, tiles that used to hang in her bathroom and living room. Raimunda spent eight years paying for the tiles, one by one, to decorate her home. Today, she's one of over 40,000 displaced people moved from the banks of the Xingu River in the Amazon Basin to make space for construction of one of the world's largest dams, the Belo Monte. Raimunda's family, along with three other families featured in the film, now live in Altamira, a city plagued by unemployment, a lack of secure shelter and rising violence. With the help of stunning cinematography and moments of magic realism that bring the river and its stories to life, River Silence tells an urgent and unfortunately all too common story of Indigenous populations dispossessed and disrespected in the name of economic exploitation and natural resource mining. Aisha Jamal
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