Brazil Unfiltered: Rejeito + Q&A
Line up: Pedro de Filippis | 2023 | Brazil | 75’ | EN subtitles

Following the worst tailings dam collapses in history, new dams threaten to burst, impacting millions of people in Minas Gerais, Brazil. A state environmental advisor confronts the modus operandi of the government and mining companies, while residents resist in their threatened communities. Selected at IDFA and HotDocs in 2023.  Trailer

From 14 March to 14 May, Brazil Unfiltered brings together six urgent documentary films confronting social injustice in Brazil, offering unvarnished perspectives from the frontlines of resistance. Centering territorial struggles, the program moves from indigenous land defense to grassroots activism against urban violence and marginalisation.