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The first question was:

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What else dies when a river is murdered?

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When the Doce River was pronounced dead,

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I was 8,000 kilometers and 30 years away.

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But that mud hit me hard,

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So I came back
to see that from a close distance.

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My plan was to carry out a study,

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a map of the impact of the mining activity
on the Minas Gerais landscape.

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I was born in a state that has mining
engraved in its name and history.

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The train still had the name
of the mining company,

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but it no longer stained our skin
with the shiny iron dust

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that used to blow through the window.

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It's not over yet.

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I think this train
goes around the world.

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Look, it's not over yet,

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it's not over.

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-It's not over!
-I think it will never end.

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Let me see how it is now.

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Geez!

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-It's over now.

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I didn't remember how deep our
craters and abysses were.

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IRONLAND

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Next stop: Governador Valadares Station.

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They say you can leave a place
but a place never leaves you.

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That’s how I felt
when I saw the Ibituruna.

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In the old days, we knew we were
getting home when we spotted the peak.

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Mind the gap between the train
and the platform.

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But I had nobody left in my hometown,

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only the landscape.

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Who wants water? Five reais!

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Do you want water?

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It's five bucks but worth a thousand.

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Because Vale killed the river.

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-Thanks.
-Thank you!

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Who wants water?

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I've heard that people
are bathing in spring water.

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The SAAE Company,

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which supplies fresh water
here in Valadares,

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has found heavy metal
in the water they collect from the river.

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So people have adopted a system,

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they've been digging wells.

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-So most households--
-Now have artisan wells.

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But we've been using spring water
for drinking and cooking.

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Landscapes are consumed.

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That's the Immigrant Square over there.

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Look how beautiful.

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I'll get off here, please.

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-Which way is the hotel?
-To the right.

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I'll walk to that statue.

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Valadares doesn't export iron ore.

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it exports people.

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I’m one of the thousands of people
who went to the US

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to chase the American dream.

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The square pays tribute
to our “courage and bravery”

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to face the unknown.

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I now think that staying in Brazil
was more courageous.

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-I'll have a hot dog, please.
-The full order with all toppings?

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What's in the full order?

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Two sausages, corn, potato sticks,

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mashed potatoes, bacon, grated cheese,
quail eggs, and mozzarella cheese.

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-I'll have that one, please.
-I'll bring it to you.

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-Make yourself comfortable.
-Thanks.

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-Do you know who those Indians are?
-They're the Krenak.

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-Are they from here?
-Yes, they live nearby.

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-Make yourself confortable.
-Okay, fine.

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The places I’ve been to,
the people I have been.

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From a foreigner looking for a place
in this world

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to a geographer trying to figure out
what her place was.

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Would that place be a world in ruins,
for sale, on the brink of destruction?

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"Landscape."

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"All we can apprehend through our senses."

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"Place."

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"An inhabited space."

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What inhabits the landscapes
that no longer exist?

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My roots penetrate the river body,

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they’ve fed off it since I was born.

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The collapse of the Fundão Dam in Mariana,

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formed an avalanche,

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bursting 32-million cubic meters
of mud and mining residues.

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The mix crushed
houses, animals and crops,

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and polluted the Doce River basin...

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I followed that trail of mud.

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The river seemed alive.

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But everything is not what it seems.

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That’s what I learned from Joelma.

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The river looks clear today.

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It doesn't look like there's mud in it.

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It's clean but it isn't, right?

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It looks clear in the surface,
but deep inside,

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it's all dirty and muddy.

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Look. The mud has settled
at the bottom, see?

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In the deeper parts,

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if you get in the water and stir it,
the mud comes up.

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So, the tailings are still sitting
at the bottom of the river.

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Those tailings,

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they stanched a mud
that gets solid in our island.

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You see? It's like concrete.

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Instead of fertilizing
like regular floods,

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by bringing nutrients from other parts,

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renovating the soil every year,

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this one settled
at the bottom of the river.

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The crops we plant there grow deformed,

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they're not healthy, so to speak.

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Their leaves are wrinkled,

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the banana trees don't grow upwards,
they sprout as big chunks,

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wild.

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-That's my island.
-You're kidding...

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Does it have a name?
Like "Joelma's Island."

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-Not really.
-Did you name it?

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Sometimes I call it "My Dream."

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"My Dream."

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Let's go to "My Dream," then.

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-Or else, "Your Dream."
-That's right.

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See? That's what the mud has left behind.

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And this is the soil.

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Look, this is the original soil.

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Dig it over here, Valdir.

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This is the soil
we used to have here, look.

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-It's sandy, isn't it?
-Yes, it's great soil. Look.

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This is the soil we used to have here.

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Feel the smell? It smells like dirt.

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It's protected, it smells great.

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This is the soil.

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-Now, these clods you're seeing--
-They're another color.

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And there's a cockroach
and ant epidemic, look.

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Look.

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Let's check underneath.

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If we're to plant anything,
we must remove the clods first.

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-Look how big that is.
-Look.

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So the soil must breath.

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See the cockroaches crawling out?

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-They're hiding underneath.
-Look.

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There's a bunch of them over there.

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This is no good.

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The soil couldn’t breathe anymore.

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Yet, Joelma kept trying
to pull her fruits from it,

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her dream, her survival boycotted
by the mining company.

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... suffer from the
contamination of tailings.

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The company in charge of the dam
was fined by the government

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To pay 70 million dollars

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But the company appealed
and has not yet paid any cent.

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More than 600 km of the river
was contaminated by the toxid mud.

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Along the river banks
are those who live in the margins,

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the ruins of a development model.

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The Minas Gerais dust and its red soil
took me to the epicenter of the tragedy.

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It was 4:10 or 4:20 p.m.,

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I heard a blast.

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We tried to warn
as many people as possible,

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but we had to scream
because we couldn't go door by door.

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We got people up on pickup trucks
and drove them up the hill, to the church.

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We tried to find some people,

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and rescue those
who were crying for help.

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We didn't sleep, we spent that night up,

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devastated, it was too sad.

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Why didn’t the warning sirens go off?

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How did they let the companies
threaten an entire town with death?

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The destroyed school was a lesson

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teaching us that such mistakes
should never happen again.

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But it wasn’t going to be like that.

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In the ruins of Paracatu de Baixo,
I met Seu Zezinho.

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He liked to be close

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to all that was part of his life
for more than 90 years.

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I've lost hope

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that Samarco is going to fix these houses.

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It seems they're waiting for us to die.

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Maybe they'll come after that.

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That's my son's house, that's another one,
and another, all ruined.

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They got married and asked me:
"What am I supposed to do?"

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We have no land,
what I am supposed to do?"

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I said: "What do you mean?

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You're going to build your house."

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I ain't taking no land
to the grave, this is the land.

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How did the mud come, Zezinho?

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I was up at the other house.

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Then, the chopper appeared,
took a turn,

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and landed like a bird in the field.

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I was nearby, so I went down there.

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Before I got there, they came and said:

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"Did you come to see the craft?

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Go back to your house, grab your documents

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because the mud is coming."

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I went in the house, grabbed my documents,

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and they went shouting
at people to leave their houses.

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If it had happened at night
we'd be all dead now.

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Everyone here would have been killed.

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My whole family lived here.

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My cousin, my sister,
another cousin, my uncle.

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There were houses all over there.

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You can't see them anymore,
the mud knocked them down.

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It swept everything away.

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-Was there a sound?
-Absolutely.

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I can still hear it in my ears.

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-What did it sound like?
-An airliner.

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Like an airplane engine.
It came down smashing everything.

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Look at my house, such a big one.

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You can tell how tall it was
by the height of the wood pillars.

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There used to be six bedrooms.

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The hut where the women cooked
still stands, look.

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There was always a covered area.

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Look at the other one.

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I was born and raised
right here, on this spot.

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I never went anywhere else,
only for work.

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We'd go to Santa Barbara
and Alegria.

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We'd leave town to work,

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because there was none here.

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We'd do that every month,

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once or twice.

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For more than 50 years, Seu Zezinho
has led the Revelry of Kings,

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one of the community’s
most important feasts.

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“Samarco won’t ruin my feast,” he told me.

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The mud took everything he had,
except for his faith in life.

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Minas Gerais was founded
on extractivism and faith.

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What removes more mountains?

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A guide from these ancient gold mines,

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told that mining was the most painful
and heaviest form of work,

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carried out by enslaved Africans in Brazil.

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They had to craw around.

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They went blind, died buried, suffocated.

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Where was the exit from this hole?

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Pico do Itacolomi.

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The stone finger pointed the way
to the settlers’ mines.

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Centuries later,

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a replica of the peak
was built in Belo Horizonte,

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so that the Ouro Preto locals who migrated
to the capital wouldn’t feel homesick.

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"The affective bond between an individual
and a landscape."

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"Topophilia."

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From the gold cycle,
I went to the iron cycle,

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to the hometown of the poet
Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

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In his poems he denounced
the destruction of the landscape

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by mining companies, like no other.

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"Each one of us has our own piece
of Pico do Cauê.

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In the town made of iron,

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The shoe horses toll like bells.

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The boys walk to school.

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The men look down at the ground.

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The English men buy the mine.

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Alone by the door of his grocery store,

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Tutu Caramujo broods over
the incomparable defeat."

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Where did the peak use to be?

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It used to be this tall, massive rock,

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it was shaped like this,
then it lowered in that direction.

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And...

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Basically, we'd be looking at it now.

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In this case,

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the idea is to remake it,

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so as to give it back,

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geologically speaking...

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It's as though
we were rebuilding the peak.

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-To replace it with another one.
-Yes, a prosthetic peak.

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-Made of what? Tailings?
-Tailings and scraps,

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the mining residues,

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from the very exploration,

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the rocks, the yokes.

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So, our dream at this point,

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is to rebuild the peak.

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What do the locals think of that?

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Well, some find it interesting.

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If we retake the prosthesis example,

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when a person has no teeth and wears
a prosthesis, that's a good thing.

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But it's not real, is it?

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I'm bald, so it's like wearing a wig.

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I'd feel weird.

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If I dream of myself, I'll still be bald.

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It's like when a person loses a limb,

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they feel they still have it
when they're dreaming.

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It's something like that.

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"Never should I forget this event

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in the life of my fatigued retinas.

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Never should I forget that in
the middle of the road

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there was a stone, there was a stone."

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"An ordinary small town

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Little houses
women amid banana trees

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orchards, love, and singing.

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A man walks slowly.

00:28:37.507 --> 00:28:38.925
A dog walks slowly.

00:28:39.050 --> 00:28:40.844
A donkey walks slowly.

00:28:41.010 --> 00:28:43.179
Slowly... The windows gaze.

00:28:43.430 --> 00:28:45.765
God, what a dull life!".

00:28:46.641 --> 00:28:48.059
Did Drummond love this land?

00:28:48.143 --> 00:28:52.021
While everyone thought that Vale
was coming for a reason,

00:28:52.105 --> 00:28:56.025
he knew that sooner or later
they would ruin our land.

00:28:56.109 --> 00:28:58.153
He was against it.

00:28:58.528 --> 00:28:59.696
That's it!

00:28:59.779 --> 00:29:02.824
It was something else.
The company promised one thing,

00:29:03.241 --> 00:29:07.078
but he knew it was something else.
That's why he was against mining.

00:29:07.245 --> 00:29:09.080
He knew it would be bad for the land.

00:29:09.247 --> 00:29:11.749
People say he left
because he didn't like it here.

00:29:11.833 --> 00:29:13.710
How could he not like this place?

00:29:13.835 --> 00:29:15.753
-He loved it!
-It was his inspiration.

00:29:15.837 --> 00:29:17.797
-That's right!
-But it changed so much,

00:29:17.922 --> 00:29:20.133
that he lost the will to write.

00:29:20.383 --> 00:29:22.844
It wasn't as he had known before.

00:29:22.927 --> 00:29:24.929
Do people go crazy from sadness here?

00:29:25.013 --> 00:29:26.931
This town has a high suicide rate.

00:29:27.140 --> 00:29:29.350
Itabira ranks high in suicide cases.

00:29:30.018 --> 00:29:34.147
It used to be one of the world's highest
rates, but now it ranks second in Brazil.

00:29:35.106 --> 00:29:37.817
It's scary how many people
commit suicide every day.

00:29:37.942 --> 00:29:41.112
Some say it has to do
with spiritual reasons.

00:29:41.237 --> 00:29:43.656
Yes, but researchers have found

00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:47.535
that the ore has something to do with it.

00:29:47.911 --> 00:29:50.747
It's likely, because we breathe
iron dust day and night.

00:29:50.830 --> 00:29:52.749
I mean, these are metals.

00:29:52.874 --> 00:29:54.876
I talked to a guy who feels very sad,

00:29:55.001 --> 00:29:57.754
he keeps staring at that mine,

00:29:57.921 --> 00:29:59.839
the train wagons and all.

00:29:59.923 --> 00:30:02.842
He told me he feels a deep sense of loss.

00:30:02.926 --> 00:30:04.385
He's always losing something.

00:30:04.552 --> 00:30:07.013
They're always taking
pieces of us to sell them.

00:30:13.811 --> 00:30:15.146
Pico do Cauê.

00:30:15.605 --> 00:30:18.316
Itabira Iron Ore Company.

00:30:18.983 --> 00:30:20.902
1911.

00:30:21.694 --> 00:30:23.071
Vale do Rio Doce.

00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:25.657
State Company. World War II.

00:30:31.788 --> 00:30:32.580
[Listening the audio recorder]

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[selecting tracks]

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[indistinct chat]

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Next poem!

00:30:35.792 --> 00:30:39.212
"The largest train in the world
takes my land to Germany

00:30:39.420 --> 00:30:43.341
It takes my land to Canada
It takes my land to Japan

00:30:43.508 --> 00:30:48.096
The largest train in the world
Is powered by five diesel locomotives

00:30:48.429 --> 00:30:51.599
Thievish, geminated, unbridled

00:30:51.808 --> 00:30:54.894
It carries my time, my childhood, my life

00:30:55.103 --> 00:30:59.023
Ground in 163 cars
full of ore and destruction

00:30:59.399 --> 00:31:02.860
The largest train in the world
carries the smallest thing in the world

00:31:03.111 --> 00:31:04.946
My Itabiran heart.

00:31:05.113 --> 00:31:07.240
There goes the largest train in the world

00:31:07.407 --> 00:31:09.867
Meandering off and away

00:31:10.118 --> 00:31:12.495
I'm not sure it will return one day

00:31:12.704 --> 00:31:16.416
For there’s no land or heart anymore."

00:32:27.236 --> 00:32:31.032
Making that map was becoming
more and more complex.

00:32:31.491 --> 00:32:34.994
The former “iron square” was expanding,

00:32:34.994 --> 00:32:38.581
with mutiple sides, layers, contradictions...

00:32:39.791 --> 00:32:42.460
The mining companies offered people
jobs and income,

00:32:42.460 --> 00:32:46.547
but what I saw around the mines,
didn't look like development.

00:32:47.131 --> 00:32:50.218
The ore that is in everything we consume,

00:32:50.510 --> 00:32:54.180
also consumes landscapes, mountains...

00:32:54.180 --> 00:32:55.682
And people.

00:34:05.001 --> 00:34:09.088
I visited a place
where mining was just starting.

00:34:09.464 --> 00:34:14.260
Conceição do Mato Dentro,
"The Minas Gerais Capital of Ecotourism,"

00:34:14.260 --> 00:34:18.806
is now home to one of the world’s
biggest mining projects.

00:34:20.850 --> 00:34:22.268
To export the ore,

00:34:22.310 --> 00:34:26.105
they built a 500-kilometer pipeline

00:34:26.189 --> 00:34:30.193
from central Minas Gerais to the ocean,

00:34:30.359 --> 00:34:33.821
using water from the region’s
rivers and streams.

00:34:35.990 --> 00:34:38.117
As I looked for that

00:34:38.117 --> 00:34:41.496
I came across Fernando and Elizete.

00:34:44.832 --> 00:34:45.666
Hi!

00:34:45.958 --> 00:34:46.793
-Hi.
-Hi.

00:34:46.876 --> 00:34:50.671
Can you tell me where the mining site is?

00:34:52.131 --> 00:34:54.717
-Straight ahead?
-Yes. Just go ahead.

00:34:56.511 --> 00:34:58.221
Do you live or work there?

00:34:58.387 --> 00:35:00.139
We live there, you know?

00:35:00.264 --> 00:35:02.683
-Do you work at the mine?
-No.

00:35:03.184 --> 00:35:05.478
No, and we don't plan
to do that now either.

00:35:06.687 --> 00:35:08.147
Are there many workers there?

00:35:08.356 --> 00:35:09.774
Your friends, and all.

00:35:09.857 --> 00:35:12.068
Yes, some. Many.

00:35:12.235 --> 00:35:14.445
How long has the mining company
been around?

00:35:15.071 --> 00:35:16.364
Since 2006.

00:35:16.864 --> 00:35:19.575
-So it's been more than ten years.
-Yes.

00:35:21.160 --> 00:35:24.997
Nowadays everything
revolves around mining.

00:35:25.456 --> 00:35:26.916
Things are different...

00:35:27.375 --> 00:35:29.919
There are new dangers, too.

00:35:30.586 --> 00:35:31.671
Such as, I mean...

00:35:32.255 --> 00:35:34.382
This used to be a quiet place,

00:35:35.049 --> 00:35:36.551
we'd walk around in peace,

00:35:37.385 --> 00:35:40.555
but now we can't wait at the stop alone,

00:35:40.680 --> 00:35:42.640
we don't know
what we'll find there.

00:35:42.765 --> 00:35:44.559
-You're talking about violence?
-Yes.

00:35:44.684 --> 00:35:46.561
-Like mugging and all?
-Yes, that too.

00:35:46.853 --> 00:35:48.437
There are many accidents too.

00:35:48.646 --> 00:35:51.357
Lots of cases of abused women, too.

00:35:51.566 --> 00:35:53.067
-Really?
-Yes.

00:35:53.568 --> 00:35:58.948
Because they brought
workers from other places,

00:35:59.365 --> 00:36:03.077
so rapes have skyrocketed.

00:36:03.244 --> 00:36:05.746
I saw the nightclubs on the way.

00:36:05.955 --> 00:36:08.332
Yes, prostitution increased a lot too

00:36:08.583 --> 00:36:10.209
after the mining activity began.

00:36:13.546 --> 00:36:16.924
And do you want to...
Do you ever think about leaving here?

00:36:18.175 --> 00:36:21.721
-We think about it but--
-We don't really want it,

00:36:21.846 --> 00:36:24.765
but we're forced to do it,

00:36:24.849 --> 00:36:26.976
because of the impacts on our lives.

00:36:27.560 --> 00:36:29.812
How was it
before the mining company arrived?

00:36:30.146 --> 00:36:31.981
This place used to be great.

00:36:32.106 --> 00:36:35.484
Most people lived off family farming
before the mining.

00:36:36.152 --> 00:36:38.946
Then they spoiled the water,

00:36:39.071 --> 00:36:42.450
-...the dust and the smell worsened--
-How did they spoil the water?

00:36:42.742 --> 00:36:44.577
Besides polluting the rivers,

00:36:44.660 --> 00:36:49.165
they also lowered the groundwater table
when they started building the dams,

00:36:49.248 --> 00:36:52.585
so the water springs
in the communities dried out.

00:36:53.085 --> 00:36:55.922
So people stopped planting
because of the lack of water.

00:36:56.339 --> 00:36:58.966
Do other people live there?

00:36:59.342 --> 00:37:01.469
Yes, there are people living there.

00:37:01.552 --> 00:37:03.054
Didn't they want to leave?

00:37:03.262 --> 00:37:08.142
We live at the lower part
of MG-010 highway.

00:37:08.267 --> 00:37:10.228
There are many people there,

00:37:10.311 --> 00:37:14.565
there are three communities
neighboring the mining site.

00:37:14.774 --> 00:37:15.983
-Geez.
-Yes.

00:37:16.067 --> 00:37:19.362
And over there, if the dam breaks...

00:37:19.779 --> 00:37:22.490
My house is a mile away from the dam.

00:37:22.865 --> 00:37:23.991
If it breaks...

00:37:24.784 --> 00:37:27.828
If it breaks, the mud will reach our house

00:37:28.245 --> 00:37:29.747
in about a minute and a half.

00:37:29.872 --> 00:37:31.999
It may be less than a minute.

00:37:35.544 --> 00:37:38.130
We live with the worry,

00:37:38.255 --> 00:37:41.676
whether the siren will go off
if the dam breaks.

00:37:43.552 --> 00:37:46.722
So there is waste and clean water here...
All water is here.

00:37:46.847 --> 00:37:48.057
Yes. All water is here.

00:37:48.140 --> 00:37:51.143
-Were there people from your family too?
-Our entire family.

00:37:51.227 --> 00:37:55.272
All our uncles, my mother's parents,
the grandparents, they all lived here.

00:37:55.481 --> 00:37:59.485
There was a waterfall,
which was a tourist spot.

00:37:59.777 --> 00:38:02.530
It was replaced by the dam,

00:38:02.780 --> 00:38:05.866
it was the first thing they ruined
before building the dam.

00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:08.369
Where do you come from?

00:38:13.457 --> 00:38:14.583
From nowhere.

00:38:14.959 --> 00:38:17.420
Do you have permission to be here?

00:38:17.586 --> 00:38:18.796
Is there a problem?

00:38:26.345 --> 00:38:30.599
You can't take photos,
record or film anything.

00:38:31.350 --> 00:38:34.395
-Why not?
-It's the company's policy.

00:38:35.271 --> 00:38:37.648
Does the company own this public road?

00:38:37.773 --> 00:38:41.527
It's the whole area.
You can't take photos or film.

00:38:41.861 --> 00:38:44.280
So, please don't do it.

00:38:44.780 --> 00:38:45.614
All right.

00:38:50.619 --> 00:38:51.704
"Territory."

00:38:52.621 --> 00:38:56.625
"Space appropriated
by a power relationship."

00:39:12.516 --> 00:39:15.895
Dust, pollution of rivers and springs,

00:39:16.020 --> 00:39:18.856
lack of water, deforestation,
destruction of fauna and flora,

00:39:18.939 --> 00:39:23.527
disorderly growth, noise pollution,
explosions, houses cracking,

00:39:23.652 --> 00:39:26.072
traffic of heavy vehicles,

00:39:26.155 --> 00:39:29.325
persecution of political opponents,
conflicts between neighbors,

00:39:29.450 --> 00:39:32.119
erasure of rural ways of life.

00:39:33.537 --> 00:39:37.750
And iron dust scratching our eyes nonstop.

00:39:41.545 --> 00:39:43.839
"In the middle of the way was a stone

00:39:45.007 --> 00:39:46.342
Was a stone

00:39:46.926 --> 00:39:49.470
In the middle of the way
was a stone."

00:40:11.659 --> 00:40:14.411
I approached the resistance movements,

00:40:14.537 --> 00:40:17.623
interviewed people
and came across many voices.

00:40:17.706 --> 00:40:20.417
What did they mine here in Serro?
Diamonds? Gold?

00:40:20.918 --> 00:40:22.920
In colonial times,

00:40:23.337 --> 00:40:26.799
they were extracting diamonds
and gold from the neighboring districts,

00:40:27.424 --> 00:40:29.802
-In Conceição too?
-Yes, there too.

00:40:31.137 --> 00:40:33.139
-At the same time, then.
-Yes, and later

00:40:33.639 --> 00:40:37.601
more recently
came the big mining projects,

00:40:38.435 --> 00:40:40.312
ten or twelve years ago.

00:40:41.730 --> 00:40:44.024
-Here in Serro too?
-No, not here.

00:40:44.108 --> 00:40:47.611
We've been resisting
since 2014 or 2015,

00:40:47.736 --> 00:40:50.406
against the installation
of a mining operation.

00:40:52.324 --> 00:40:54.451
People have resisted fiercely

00:40:54.535 --> 00:40:57.621
to avoid here what happened in Conceição.

00:40:57.746 --> 00:41:01.542
Everyone saw the problems
brought by the mining activity closely.

00:41:02.543 --> 00:41:05.546
So the people have mobilized themselves
to prevent it.

00:41:05.713 --> 00:41:09.216
-People from all social classes?
-All social classes.

00:41:09.925 --> 00:41:12.803
Those of you who are activists

00:41:13.637 --> 00:41:15.848
working with MAM.

00:41:15.931 --> 00:41:18.517
-What is the--
-What's up, Ju?

00:41:19.101 --> 00:41:20.436
-Not much.
-How are you?

00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:22.646
-Hi, nice to meet you.
-I'm Camila.

00:41:23.439 --> 00:41:24.857
-How are you?
-Fine.

00:41:25.816 --> 00:41:27.818
This is Paola, our comrade.

00:41:28.402 --> 00:41:29.320
Here we are.

00:41:29.945 --> 00:41:31.614
She's taking part in our fight.

00:41:33.449 --> 00:41:37.620
-You look very young.
-Indeed, I'm 19.

00:41:39.121 --> 00:41:40.998
Where are you from?

00:41:42.124 --> 00:41:43.042
I...

00:41:43.334 --> 00:41:44.835
That's a good question.

00:41:45.002 --> 00:41:46.837
I come from Valadares.

00:41:47.046 --> 00:41:49.548
But I've been wandering lately.

00:41:50.424 --> 00:41:53.052
What's the current scenario
among those fighting?

00:41:53.135 --> 00:41:54.845
People are strong, aren't they?

00:41:55.054 --> 00:41:57.431
Are there many depressed people?

00:41:57.556 --> 00:41:59.642
Well, here it's like...

00:42:00.434 --> 00:42:04.313
We have victories too,
despite all the pressure.

00:42:04.438 --> 00:42:07.942
Because as we achieve things,

00:42:08.817 --> 00:42:10.444
the company fights back, right?

00:42:10.527 --> 00:42:15.950
So we've been under a lot of pressure
here in Serro.

00:42:17.117 --> 00:42:18.118
And...

00:42:18.410 --> 00:42:21.580
The things that happened
in the past few years in Conceição

00:42:22.248 --> 00:42:26.543
The company tried
to outlaw some of our leaders,

00:42:27.211 --> 00:42:28.837
through lawsuits,

00:42:29.046 --> 00:42:33.759
others received death threats,
so these things...

00:42:34.843 --> 00:42:36.845
These are additional burdens.

00:42:45.896 --> 00:42:50.442
Juliana and Paola awakened me to my own alienation,

00:42:50.484 --> 00:42:55.823
to an idea of community, of collectivity,
which I had lost.

00:43:04.290 --> 00:43:08.002
But after listening
to so many accounts of threats,

00:43:08.168 --> 00:43:10.838
I started to feel a bit afraid as well.

00:43:49.168 --> 00:43:52.338
I spent some time watching
the landscapes being torn apart,

00:43:52.546 --> 00:43:56.300
the public places
turned into private enterprises.

00:43:56.759 --> 00:44:01.722
The gears of the world machine
ran nonstop.

00:44:01.930 --> 00:44:05.517
When I came to my senses,
the landscape had already changed.

00:44:09.938 --> 00:44:13.067
But the population was wide awake.

00:44:16.236 --> 00:44:18.697
Louder! Do we want water or ore?

00:44:19.782 --> 00:44:22.368
Mining is not the solution!

00:44:22.451 --> 00:44:25.829
Come on, get closer, let's line up.

00:44:27.539 --> 00:44:30.751
Let's have a beautiful rally!

00:44:31.168 --> 00:44:33.295
Let's make it clear for the City of Serro,

00:44:33.670 --> 00:44:36.465
that this is no land for mining!

00:44:36.548 --> 00:44:37.841
Water or ore?

00:44:38.050 --> 00:44:39.802
Water!

00:44:40.177 --> 00:44:43.555
-Do we want mining?
-Not here!

00:44:43.680 --> 00:44:46.392
-Do we want mining?
-Not here!

00:44:56.985 --> 00:44:59.696
-Hi.
-Hi, Fernando.

00:44:59.863 --> 00:45:00.823
How are you doing?

00:45:00.989 --> 00:45:03.283
Come here, make yourself at home.

00:45:03.492 --> 00:45:05.285
-Thanks.
-How are you today?

00:45:05.702 --> 00:45:08.705
-How did you spend that day?
-Fine. How's your sister?

00:45:08.956 --> 00:45:11.375
-She's fine. She's in college.
-Really?

00:45:11.667 --> 00:45:14.253
-Make yourself at home.
-I came to meet your mother.

00:45:14.753 --> 00:45:17.047
This is Darcília. This is Camila.

00:45:17.131 --> 00:45:18.966
-Nice to meet you.
-Hi there!

00:45:19.091 --> 00:45:21.385
My pleasure.

00:45:21.468 --> 00:45:24.179
-I've heard a lot about you.
-Thank you!

00:45:24.304 --> 00:45:26.056
-Please, come in.
-Excuse me.

00:45:26.181 --> 00:45:29.143
-Be my guest. Make yourself at home.
-Thanks.

00:45:31.061 --> 00:45:34.064
-Good afternoon!
-Good afternoon. How are you?

00:45:34.189 --> 00:45:35.899
Fine. Come in.

00:45:35.983 --> 00:45:38.777
Make yourself comfortable, get some rest.

00:45:38.986 --> 00:45:41.572
So, I've been talking to a lot of people,

00:45:42.197 --> 00:45:45.242
-Can I record our talk?
-Sure, go ahead.

00:45:48.245 --> 00:45:53.083
How was it when they arrived?

00:45:53.208 --> 00:45:54.209
Not at all!

00:45:54.334 --> 00:45:58.922
They didn't tell us what was going on.

00:45:59.298 --> 00:46:03.552
We didn't know what mining was like,
not even if it was a mining company.

00:46:04.344 --> 00:46:06.805
We had a...

00:46:07.097 --> 00:46:08.807
A visit...

00:46:09.308 --> 00:46:10.517
It was like...

00:46:10.934 --> 00:46:15.355
The people who had bought
the Passa Sete farm came,

00:46:15.522 --> 00:46:19.443
and said they were going
to open jobs for everyone,

00:46:19.526 --> 00:46:21.737
they'd plant eucalyptus trees,

00:46:21.904 --> 00:46:25.449
and pasture for the cattle.

00:46:25.741 --> 00:46:27.951
At that time, I already had Fernando,

00:46:28.410 --> 00:46:31.288
he was five years old,
and I thought: "That's great!

00:46:31.705 --> 00:46:35.125
They'll plant brachiara grass,

00:46:35.250 --> 00:46:37.211
and we'll look after the eucalyptus

00:46:37.503 --> 00:46:39.630
and their arrival will be great for us."

00:46:40.005 --> 00:46:44.051
But it was nothing like that,
then suddenly Borbagato came,

00:46:44.801 --> 00:46:48.222
and life began to change,

00:46:48.347 --> 00:46:50.724
then MMX was also installed here,

00:46:51.725 --> 00:46:54.228
which belonged to Eike Batista,

00:46:54.436 --> 00:46:57.231
and they started to change
the course of the rivers,

00:46:57.314 --> 00:47:01.276
deplete the water, remove the dwellers,

00:47:01.485 --> 00:47:04.404
my family was one of the first
to leave Passa Sete.

00:47:04.821 --> 00:47:08.742
They think we're like wild animals.

00:47:09.326 --> 00:47:11.745
They said there was nothing
but animals here.

00:47:11.828 --> 00:47:13.872
Yes, only livestock.

00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:17.417
When I went to Rio de Janeiro in 2012,

00:47:17.709 --> 00:47:19.920
when they were...

00:47:20.504 --> 00:47:24.132
conducting projects
to transport the ore slurry,

00:47:24.508 --> 00:47:29.429
I went down to the Açu Port,
in Rio de Janeiro.

00:47:30.013 --> 00:47:32.724
When it was my turn to speak,

00:47:32.849 --> 00:47:36.728
there was an agent
who worked in Brasília,

00:47:36.937 --> 00:47:40.732
and he said: "Wait a second, Darcília?"

00:47:42.317 --> 00:47:44.027
Let me get this straight.

00:47:44.152 --> 00:47:46.572
Do you live below
the Passa Sete development?"

00:47:46.697 --> 00:47:47.698
I said: "Yes, I do."

00:47:47.948 --> 00:47:50.033
He said: "That's weird,

00:47:50.242 --> 00:47:54.830
Anglo American wrote a letter
to the Government, I have it right here,

00:47:55.122 --> 00:48:01.420
it says there were only 80 families
living above the project site,

00:48:01.503 --> 00:48:04.506
but no families were living below.

00:48:04.715 --> 00:48:07.009
Only old-growth forest and animals."

00:48:07.342 --> 00:48:08.844
Then I said:

00:48:09.011 --> 00:48:11.930
"Am I an animal?

00:48:12.264 --> 00:48:14.391
I'm speaking right here
in this microphone,

00:48:14.725 --> 00:48:18.020
in front of you,

00:48:18.353 --> 00:48:21.064
and there's a caravan that came too,

00:48:21.231 --> 00:48:26.320
we all live below the site,
so that means we're all wild animals."

00:48:39.291 --> 00:48:41.585
The coffee will be ready soon.

00:48:59.561 --> 00:49:01.563
Look, it came from far away.

00:49:01.647 --> 00:49:03.732
Did you see it?

00:49:05.233 --> 00:49:09.029
They go into the bushes,
but when we call them, they run back.

00:49:13.450 --> 00:49:14.951
Is that your oven?

00:49:15.035 --> 00:49:17.412
Yes, that's where we bake biscuits.

00:49:19.247 --> 00:49:22.250
We make a fire,

00:49:22.459 --> 00:49:24.419
prepare the cinders, and close it,

00:49:24.544 --> 00:49:26.088
then we put the lid on,

00:49:26.171 --> 00:49:28.632
-Mom!
-Come see this!

00:49:29.132 --> 00:49:30.509
What is it, boy?

00:49:30.676 --> 00:49:32.511
... a mining tailings dam.

00:49:32.719 --> 00:49:35.347
Look how serious this is.

00:49:35.430 --> 00:49:39.267
The fire department has declared
that there are victims,

00:49:39.351 --> 00:49:40.268
That's so sad.

00:49:40.352 --> 00:49:45.565
That's a woman being taken
out of the mud, folks, for Christ's sake.

00:49:45.941 --> 00:49:50.654
-She's covered in mud.
-So sad.

00:49:50.821 --> 00:49:53.615
A chopper is trying to rescue her.

00:49:53.740 --> 00:49:56.410
There's a man there,
people are dragging in the mud--

00:49:56.535 --> 00:49:58.537
I'll be damned...

00:49:58.829 --> 00:50:01.581
Look at that, for Christ's sake.

00:50:01.873 --> 00:50:03.709
Thank God she was removed!

00:50:15.095 --> 00:50:16.763
I couldn't believe

00:50:17.055 --> 00:50:20.183
that three years later
another crime had been committed,

00:50:20.392 --> 00:50:22.894
and that the same company was responsible,

00:50:22.978 --> 00:50:25.814
and once again,
the warning sirens didn’t go off.

00:50:26.022 --> 00:50:30.902
Once again, history repeated itself,
as a tragedy and as a crime.

00:50:46.084 --> 00:50:47.878
Hey! Can I come with you?

00:50:48.587 --> 00:50:50.213
Inside or in the back?

00:50:51.798 --> 00:50:53.425
I can ride in the back.

00:50:56.094 --> 00:50:56.928
Let's go!

00:50:57.804 --> 00:50:58.680
Wait!

00:50:59.014 --> 00:51:00.307
-Let's go!
-I'm going too.

00:51:00.474 --> 00:51:02.476
Get up here!

00:51:02.768 --> 00:51:04.394
-Wait!
-Come on, let's go!

00:51:04.603 --> 00:51:05.395
Let's go!

00:51:05.604 --> 00:51:06.980
You're kidding?

00:51:07.314 --> 00:51:09.274
-Get up here.
-Come on.

00:51:09.399 --> 00:51:10.233
Let's go!

00:51:58.156 --> 00:52:01.993
But this time I didn’t feel
like a foreigner.

00:52:02.369 --> 00:52:05.372
I finally felt as a part of that map.

00:52:05.872 --> 00:52:08.166
I was made of that very clay.

00:52:08.667 --> 00:52:10.126
Come on, let's go!

00:52:41.366 --> 00:52:44.327
I still remember the mud’s acrid smell.

00:52:44.661 --> 00:52:46.329
A metallic smell.

00:52:46.454 --> 00:52:50.125
I still remember the people
digging with their hands,

00:52:50.333 --> 00:52:54.713
the diggers searching no longer for ore,
but dead people.

00:52:55.672 --> 00:52:57.757
Fragments of bodies.

00:53:56.358 --> 00:54:00.820
259 people dead and 11 missing.

00:54:01.237 --> 00:54:02.864
Buried bodies,

00:54:03.031 --> 00:54:04.741
suspended bodies,

00:54:04.908 --> 00:54:06.826
death hovering above us,

00:54:07.035 --> 00:54:09.245
the mud spilling in the skies,

00:54:09.245 --> 00:54:11.247
the sky about to fall...

00:54:33.687 --> 00:54:36.648
Amid the wreckage, I talked to Edgard.

00:54:36.898 --> 00:54:38.608
He was looking for his sister,

00:54:38.775 --> 00:54:41.528
who had worked at an inn
swept away by the mud.

00:54:42.570 --> 00:54:44.864
It's been seven days since we have been...

00:54:45.657 --> 00:54:47.117
Waiting.

00:54:47.867 --> 00:54:49.160
Anguishing.

00:54:50.078 --> 00:54:51.162
Because...

00:54:52.247 --> 00:54:56.459
It's not only me, but many
want to find people alive,

00:54:57.168 --> 00:54:58.753
but as for myself,

00:54:59.546 --> 00:55:01.381
I'm showing you this area,

00:55:01.756 --> 00:55:05.468
but as you go down,
there are even worse areas.

00:55:05.844 --> 00:55:08.847
So, as you look at this,
the chances of finding someone,

00:55:09.764 --> 00:55:10.682
alive,

00:55:11.558 --> 00:55:12.726
must be miraculous.

00:55:13.351 --> 00:55:15.145
My poor mom,

00:55:15.478 --> 00:55:16.896
my nephews,

00:55:17.564 --> 00:55:21.568
they can understand,
but we want to find the body at least,

00:55:22.235 --> 00:55:23.903
otherwise the pain will be worse.

00:55:24.070 --> 00:55:26.489
What if they can't find my sister?

00:55:26.781 --> 00:55:29.075
Deep inside,
I'll always believe...

00:55:29.868 --> 00:55:31.161
"She's alive."

00:55:42.464 --> 00:55:45.508
Gilson, Edgard's cousin,
came from far away,

00:55:45.759 --> 00:55:49.471
to look for his mother and sister-in-law
in that open-air graveyard.

00:55:49.637 --> 00:55:52.474
In the night from Saturday to Sunday,

00:55:53.224 --> 00:55:54.893
I mean, from Friday to Saturday,

00:55:55.060 --> 00:55:57.604
they say you could hear
people screaming for help.

00:55:58.146 --> 00:56:00.899
Their focus was Brumadinho.

00:56:01.649 --> 00:56:04.527
The mine operations
was at the Feijão Creek,

00:56:04.652 --> 00:56:08.656
but if you looked it up on the web,
you'd only find "Feijão Mine."

00:56:09.032 --> 00:56:12.035
They never mentioned
any village or community.

00:56:12.744 --> 00:56:14.746
They didn't mention the dwellers.

00:56:15.038 --> 00:56:16.539
We never really existed.

00:56:16.664 --> 00:56:19.751
Whenever people asked about it,

00:56:19.834 --> 00:56:23.129
they only knew it as Vale's mining site.

00:56:44.192 --> 00:56:46.611
The trees were high
and you couldn't see them.

00:56:46.736 --> 00:56:48.738
Those trees over there,

00:56:49.322 --> 00:56:51.699
for instance,
look at that tree line over there,

00:56:51.866 --> 00:56:53.952
that whole thing came at us,

00:56:54.619 --> 00:56:57.622
off the ground, high above us,
and the earth quaked.

00:56:58.206 --> 00:57:00.291
I'm telling you, in my right mind,

00:57:00.416 --> 00:57:02.043
I thought it was an earthquake.

00:57:03.086 --> 00:57:05.505
I thought so because the ground
was shaking.

00:57:06.214 --> 00:57:09.300
Where would I run?
I felt the ground was going to split open.

00:57:09.509 --> 00:57:11.427
"It's going to crack beneath my feet."

00:57:11.511 --> 00:57:15.140
I stood like this,
I looked there, then I looked here.

00:57:15.723 --> 00:57:19.310
I feared it would crack open,
as I saw the trees rising above.

00:57:21.104 --> 00:57:24.023
Those who were there
and saw the mud coming,

00:57:24.107 --> 00:57:25.900
they started running fast.

00:57:26.317 --> 00:57:29.028
But in my case, I was right here,

00:57:29.237 --> 00:57:31.239
the trees rose high above the ground,

00:57:31.322 --> 00:57:32.240
the earth quaked.

00:57:32.323 --> 00:57:35.910
The firemen asked me why I didn't run,
"I couldn't see it. Run from what?"

00:57:36.035 --> 00:57:40.123
There's no "how I feel".
We must wait and see what happens,

00:57:40.415 --> 00:57:42.250
what they are going to do,

00:57:42.417 --> 00:57:44.002
to see what future remains.

00:57:44.127 --> 00:57:45.628
A buddy asked me:

00:57:45.712 --> 00:57:48.173
"What future do you see ahead, Wagner?"

00:57:48.798 --> 00:57:49.716
I said:

00:57:50.425 --> 00:57:51.509
"What future?"

00:57:53.094 --> 00:57:54.888
"What future can I see now?"

00:57:55.930 --> 00:57:58.933
Now we have to live, one day at a time,

00:57:59.392 --> 00:58:00.894
to see what's going to happen.

00:58:09.611 --> 00:58:10.820
"What future?"

00:58:11.946 --> 00:58:15.617
Wagner’s question echoed
through the debris.

00:58:16.117 --> 00:58:18.036
Wagner worked for VALE,

00:58:18.244 --> 00:58:21.122
a company that many employees
regarded as a mother.

00:59:19.597 --> 00:59:22.183
Another river was pronounced dead,

00:59:22.392 --> 00:59:24.519
this time the Paraopeba.

00:59:37.282 --> 00:59:40.034
The bridges leading
to the future collapsed.

00:59:40.243 --> 00:59:44.914
We can't think of the future
as if the past hadn't existed.

00:59:59.554 --> 01:00:01.931
The sum of all yesterdays

01:00:02.265 --> 01:00:04.225
was takings us to the abyss.

01:00:38.259 --> 01:00:39.802
Time went on,

01:00:40.094 --> 01:00:43.973
the management of the tragedy
became a new business,

01:00:44.182 --> 01:00:46.684
the disaster had come in handy.

01:00:47.101 --> 01:00:51.314
They said it was a reconstruction
but it looked like ruins.

01:00:52.982 --> 01:00:55.693
The ruins of a development model.

01:01:13.378 --> 01:01:17.006
What is left when a world ends?

01:01:35.483 --> 01:01:40.488
What is left when everything
is turned into private property.

01:03:02.528 --> 01:03:05.490
WE ACCEPT VALE'S VOUCHER

01:03:10.161 --> 01:03:11.496
ESCAPE ROUTE

01:03:22.048 --> 01:03:23.382
Good morning.

01:03:34.018 --> 01:03:36.771
New forms of fear and suspicion.

01:03:39.857 --> 01:03:43.402
Suddenly, the sirens that didn't go off
in Mariana and Brumadinho

01:03:43.486 --> 01:03:45.738
started echoing all around.

01:03:46.155 --> 01:03:51.244
They suddenly announced that more than
40 dams were at risk of collapsing.

01:03:51.536 --> 01:03:54.413
The state had become a minefield,

01:03:54.539 --> 01:03:58.209
a time bomb ready to blow at any moment.

01:03:58.376 --> 01:04:01.754
Many people were hastily removed
from their homes.

01:04:01.963 --> 01:04:04.549
They found out they lived
in hazardous areas,

01:04:04.757 --> 01:04:07.843
which the company calls "SRZ,"

01:04:07.927 --> 01:04:10.555
or "Self-Rescue Zones."

01:04:10.638 --> 01:04:12.932
In other words, if the mud comes,

01:04:13.057 --> 01:04:17.311
people have to run
to a safe zone by themselves.

01:04:25.987 --> 01:04:29.699
They established a monthly
siren testing routine.

01:04:29.824 --> 01:04:32.410
I arrived just in time
for one of these exercises,

01:04:32.493 --> 01:04:34.495
when I went to see Dona Darcília again.

01:04:36.706 --> 01:04:38.207
It's not only us here.

01:04:39.792 --> 01:04:41.252
There are others down there.

01:04:42.712 --> 01:04:44.714
Our nephews,

01:04:45.590 --> 01:04:47.925
and other relatives.

01:05:17.163 --> 01:05:20.041
It doesn't do any good for us.

01:05:20.583 --> 01:05:24.837
If that thing breaks here, we are dead.

01:05:26.464 --> 01:05:28.049
We're worth nothing.

01:05:30.760 --> 01:05:34.555
When it goes off,
the water will be already here.

01:05:44.732 --> 01:05:45.733
God be with you.

01:06:04.251 --> 01:06:06.253
And to know that there are people

01:06:06.879 --> 01:06:08.923
who can't stand or get out of bed.

01:06:09.465 --> 01:06:12.176
If we can't carry the person,
everyone dies.

01:07:12.820 --> 01:07:14.780
The last time I saw Seu Zezinho,

01:07:14.947 --> 01:07:17.616
he was still waiting for his new house.

01:07:23.706 --> 01:07:25.249
Seu Zezinho!

01:07:25.624 --> 01:07:26.667
How are you?

01:07:29.128 --> 01:07:30.212
I'm distressed.

01:07:30.337 --> 01:07:33.215
-Distressed?
-They're supposed to build me a house.

01:07:35.718 --> 01:07:37.595
It used to be much better,

01:07:37.720 --> 01:07:41.640
because now I have to pick up the boys
who work with me on the Kings Revelry.

01:07:42.016 --> 01:07:44.226
down in Águas Claras,

01:07:44.435 --> 01:07:49.148
so they can come and play with me.

01:07:49.315 --> 01:07:51.317
I have to pick them up
and take them back.

01:07:51.400 --> 01:07:54.737
Back in Paracatu, I had a house
and they'd stay over,

01:07:54.904 --> 01:07:57.281
I see, all together.

01:07:57.406 --> 01:07:59.909
All together, they'd eat
and drink with me there.

01:08:01.327 --> 01:08:03.078
What do you do in Mariana?

01:08:03.329 --> 01:08:04.789
Nothing. What can I do?

01:08:04.914 --> 01:08:07.917
There is no place to plant anything.
What would I do?

01:08:09.835 --> 01:08:11.504
sit around the house.

01:08:13.714 --> 01:08:17.718
"Paracatu de Baixo Resettlement Area.
Restricted Access."

01:08:17.802 --> 01:08:22.723
"No fires, no cutting,
no fishing, and no swimming."

01:08:22.932 --> 01:08:26.018
-Is there any water here?
-Yes, there is.

01:08:26.227 --> 01:08:28.020
-There's water down there.
-I see.

01:08:28.145 --> 01:08:30.022
But you can't swim or hunt.

01:08:30.231 --> 01:08:32.525
The only one missing is "No planting."

01:08:33.108 --> 01:08:34.610
"No partying."

01:08:34.819 --> 01:08:38.030
-No eating!
-You can't eat either!

01:08:38.113 --> 01:08:39.615
You can't breathe.

01:08:40.533 --> 01:08:41.909
We're almost there.

01:08:44.328 --> 01:08:45.496
Good afternoon.

01:08:45.746 --> 01:08:46.914
How are you?

01:08:47.039 --> 01:08:49.250
I've joined Seu Zezinho
to look at his house.

01:08:49.333 --> 01:08:51.043
Okay, thank you.

01:08:57.216 --> 01:08:58.050
Thank you.

01:08:58.509 --> 01:08:59.802
Have a nice day.

01:09:00.511 --> 01:09:02.221
-This way, right?
-Right.

01:09:09.019 --> 01:09:10.729
-Good morning.
-How are you?

01:09:10.855 --> 01:09:13.524
We're going to Seu Zezinho's lot.

01:09:13.607 --> 01:09:14.483
Pardon me?

01:09:14.567 --> 01:09:19.405
-We're headed to his construction site.
-Up here? Seu Zezinho?

01:09:20.030 --> 01:09:24.118
Does anyone know you're coming?

01:09:24.243 --> 01:09:26.787
-No, only the old man himself.
-Himself?

01:09:27.496 --> 01:09:28.330
Seu Zezinho, then.

01:09:28.414 --> 01:09:32.126
-You understand, don't you, Seu Zezinho?
-Yes, I do.

01:09:32.251 --> 01:09:35.629
The works must go on,
we have deadlines to meet.

01:09:35.754 --> 01:09:38.132
There's a lot going on.

01:09:38.215 --> 01:09:41.594
We have these protocols
to ensure everyone's safety.

01:09:41.927 --> 01:09:43.596
-All right?
-All right.

01:09:43.721 --> 01:09:46.432
-Thank you very much, folks.
-Thank you.

01:10:08.454 --> 01:10:10.664
It's all over. There's nothing left.

01:10:17.630 --> 01:10:20.132
They don't know
when it's going to be complete.

01:10:31.769 --> 01:10:34.563
Couldn't they make this house for us here?

01:10:34.939 --> 01:10:35.981
They could.

01:11:15.145 --> 01:11:17.439
"Solastalgia."

01:11:17.856 --> 01:11:20.609
"The catastrophe syndrome.

01:11:20.818 --> 01:11:26.156
A severe form of distress
caused by changes in the landscape."

01:12:25.966 --> 01:12:28.469
Then I got back
to the beginning of my journey,

01:12:29.136 --> 01:12:30.471
to the Doce River,

01:12:30.637 --> 01:12:33.098
to Joelma's island, "My Dream."

01:12:35.392 --> 01:12:37.269
The map would be a affective one.

01:12:39.063 --> 01:12:41.815
-What should we add?
-My country house is already there.

01:12:41.982 --> 01:12:43.817
-And my house too.
-If you got married,

01:12:43.942 --> 01:12:45.652
you'd marry in this country house.

01:12:45.778 --> 01:12:48.864
-No. Or maybe.
-Maybe I would, because...

01:12:49.073 --> 01:12:51.408
I've known the owner since I was a kid,

01:12:51.658 --> 01:12:53.077
and I find it gorgeous.

01:12:53.160 --> 01:12:55.829
It’s my childhood farm.
I was practically born in it.

01:12:55.954 --> 01:12:56.830
What is there?

01:12:57.081 --> 01:12:58.874
There's all you can think of.

01:12:58.957 --> 01:13:01.460
-Exotic fruits.
-What exotic fruits?

01:13:02.795 --> 01:13:04.380
There are açaí berries,

01:13:04.671 --> 01:13:05.881
mangosteens...

01:13:06.090 --> 01:13:10.094
-Cocoa is not exotic, but--
-What about that little brown one?

01:13:10.219 --> 01:13:12.137
-Camu-camu?
-Yes.

01:13:12.262 --> 01:13:14.890
-They taste great.
-There's camu-camu, and canistel.

01:13:16.058 --> 01:13:18.185
It's right here, isn't it?
In this paradise.

01:13:18.268 --> 01:13:19.478
-Yes.
-Yes, right there.

01:13:19.561 --> 01:13:21.063
What are we going to call it?

01:13:21.355 --> 01:13:23.232
-"Pindorama!"
-OK, "Pindorama!"

01:13:24.358 --> 01:13:28.403
It's called Pindorama.
That means "palm trees," right?

01:13:29.446 --> 01:13:33.283
Yes, Brazil used
to be called "Pindorama Land."

01:13:33.367 --> 01:13:35.369
Yes, that's why. Got it?

01:13:35.452 --> 01:13:39.248
-It's amazing!
-So, this is...

01:13:39.790 --> 01:13:41.625
...before the exploration started.

01:13:41.792 --> 01:13:44.586
-It's like a little piece of Brazil.
-Right.

01:13:45.087 --> 01:13:47.172
-United and taken care of.
-That's the idea.

01:13:47.256 --> 01:13:48.423
Pindorama.

01:14:01.353 --> 01:14:03.689
Were you friends before, Joelma?

01:14:03.814 --> 01:14:08.735
Or did the tragedy
bring you close together?

01:14:09.611 --> 01:14:12.906
We were friends, we knew each other,
our children were born here.

01:14:13.198 --> 01:14:15.993
Mine, Geralda's, the other neighbor's.

01:14:16.326 --> 01:14:19.913
But we became more united
after the incident.

01:14:20.414 --> 01:14:22.916
We got closer, you know?

01:14:23.208 --> 01:14:25.544
- Because--
- Listen, the train.

01:14:25.586 --> 01:14:28.505
It is like that, every 20 minutes, it passes by.

01:14:28.797 --> 01:14:31.133
You have to get used to it.

01:14:31.508 --> 01:14:34.720
You know? Every time we're talking here,

01:14:34.887 --> 01:14:37.639
-...the train will pass by.
-Since you were a child?

01:14:37.723 --> 01:14:40.726
-Since we were children.
-The train has always been around.

01:14:40.809 --> 01:14:43.520
Oh, yes. Such a long time.

01:14:43.812 --> 01:14:44.897
A long time.

01:14:47.816 --> 01:14:49.776
Listen to the noise!

01:14:55.824 --> 01:14:57.910
This goes on all night long.

01:14:58.202 --> 01:14:59.578
All night.

01:14:59.953 --> 01:15:01.788
It's not an occasional type of thing.

01:15:01.914 --> 01:15:04.708
It's all day long and all night long.

01:15:05.125 --> 01:15:07.711
That's it. We have to cope with it.

01:15:08.503 --> 01:15:10.672
Do you get used to it?
Does it wake you up?

01:15:10.797 --> 01:15:12.216
No, it doesn't.

01:15:12.507 --> 01:15:13.717
That is like...

01:15:13.926 --> 01:15:14.718
Normal.

01:15:14.801 --> 01:15:18.096
But sometimes we feel like...

01:15:18.597 --> 01:15:20.515
It's stranger if it doesn't pass by.

01:15:20.599 --> 01:15:23.894
If it doesn't come,
we know something has happened.

01:15:24.311 --> 01:15:26.813
If it takes too long, we find it strange.

01:15:27.314 --> 01:15:29.316
You stop the train sometimes, don't you?

01:15:30.317 --> 01:15:34.279
You know, since they're not listening,
after that disaster...

01:15:34.905 --> 01:15:38.200
After that crime, right?

01:15:38.408 --> 01:15:40.035
That's the right way to put it.

01:15:40.118 --> 01:15:41.703
-A crime!
-Yes, not a disaster.

01:15:41.787 --> 01:15:44.081
So, after that crime,

01:15:44.498 --> 01:15:45.332
they...

01:15:45.749 --> 01:15:47.209
They won't listen to us.

01:15:47.501 --> 01:15:50.295
We talk to them, they won't listen.

01:15:50.504 --> 01:15:53.423
So we stop the train,

01:15:53.507 --> 01:15:55.008
we get everyone together,

01:15:55.092 --> 01:15:57.135
and stop it from running.

01:15:57.302 --> 01:16:00.305
We claim things, they promise
they'll listen to us,

01:16:00.764 --> 01:16:01.848
at that moment.

01:16:02.015 --> 01:16:05.519
But as soon as we get on the rail,
the police comes,

01:16:06.019 --> 01:16:09.106
to remove us as if we were criminals.

01:16:09.731 --> 01:16:10.565
You see?

01:16:10.732 --> 01:16:11.900
That's not right.

01:16:12.109 --> 01:16:15.404
They're supposed to defend both parties.

01:16:15.904 --> 01:16:20.701
Unfortunately, money and power talk.

01:16:20.826 --> 01:16:23.412
And we are dust for them.

01:17:25.891 --> 01:17:28.060
And I had a dream that repeated itself.

01:17:28.769 --> 01:17:31.730
I drowned in the mud of the Doce River.

01:17:32.814 --> 01:17:36.360
It was as if the river wanted to tell me
something important.

01:17:44.284 --> 01:17:47.371
To figure out that dream,
I went to the Krenak lands,

01:17:47.579 --> 01:17:52.793
where the Doce River is a person,
a grandfather named "Watu."

01:18:33.792 --> 01:18:36.002
I was welcomed by Ailton Krenak,

01:18:36.169 --> 01:18:37.838
a writer and activist.

01:18:41.550 --> 01:18:42.426
Hi.

01:18:42.884 --> 01:18:44.511
I'm Camila. How's it going?

01:18:45.262 --> 01:18:47.597
-Good morning!
-Good morning. Nice to meet you.

01:18:48.098 --> 01:18:49.474
-Welcome.
-Thank you.

01:18:49.558 --> 01:18:52.018
-Can we talk a bit?
-Yes.

01:18:52.644 --> 01:18:53.103
- Where?

01:18:53.770 --> 01:18:57.065
Here, for instance,
there's a place over there,

01:18:58.150 --> 01:19:01.194
where we can sit and talk.

01:19:04.322 --> 01:19:05.407
This place,

01:19:05.657 --> 01:19:10.787
were only returned
to the Krenak families

01:19:11.079 --> 01:19:13.123
in 1995.

01:19:14.082 --> 01:19:18.170
Those structures were farms
built in indigenous land,

01:19:18.295 --> 01:19:20.881
by neighboring settlers.

01:19:21.465 --> 01:19:23.884
Are they involved with mining
or not necessarily?

01:19:23.967 --> 01:19:27.012
No, it has to do with colonization itself.

01:19:27.262 --> 01:19:33.185
We live in a place that has
undergone such trauma,

01:19:33.560 --> 01:19:36.396
that it used to be called
"Sweet River Forest"

01:19:36.480 --> 01:19:39.983
and in the past 50 years,

01:19:40.484 --> 01:19:43.570
they have insisted
on calling it "Steel Valley."

01:19:46.364 --> 01:19:48.366
So, the soil...

01:19:49.284 --> 01:19:50.535
It talks.

01:19:50.869 --> 01:19:54.456
It tells what's going on.

01:19:57.959 --> 01:20:00.587
-Is that ore over there?
-Yes, it's ore.

01:20:03.882 --> 01:20:07.260
It's been a long time...

01:20:08.261 --> 01:20:14.351
since the train has been in the landscape,
as if it were...

01:20:14.684 --> 01:20:16.353
-A part of it.
-Right.

01:20:18.980 --> 01:20:22.484
The idea that we were
one humankind on this planet,

01:20:22.901 --> 01:20:24.736
is not true

01:20:25.070 --> 01:20:29.491
because only a few
are members of this "club."

01:20:29.658 --> 01:20:33.370
The others are on the other side
of the fence,

01:20:33.703 --> 01:20:35.163
with their arms outstretched.

01:20:35.497 --> 01:20:38.667
begging for food and medication.

01:20:39.376 --> 01:20:43.547
It's hypocritical to say
that we are one humankind.

01:20:47.467 --> 01:20:50.262
According to the thinking...

01:20:51.096 --> 01:20:53.473
the more stable way
of thinking of those people,

01:20:53.848 --> 01:20:56.977
I mean, the indigenous people
living by the river,

01:20:57.853 --> 01:21:00.814
this place

01:21:01.273 --> 01:21:07.487
has another dimension
beyond the one we see now, injured,

01:21:07.779 --> 01:21:11.283
and the river Watu,
which is our grandfather, is in a coma.

01:21:12.075 --> 01:21:12.909
And...

01:21:13.785 --> 01:21:15.161
Here we are...

01:21:17.581 --> 01:21:19.249
guarding the river,

01:21:21.167 --> 01:21:23.086
its comatose condition.

01:21:23.878 --> 01:21:25.547
We won't give up on him,

01:21:25.964 --> 01:21:28.383
we're going to stay here to guard it.

01:21:28.884 --> 01:21:30.885
Sometimes we sing for it,

01:21:30.969 --> 01:21:33.680
sometimes we only think about it.

01:21:33.847 --> 01:21:36.182
We dream about it.

01:21:36.850 --> 01:21:38.977
And it has reacted

01:21:39.769 --> 01:21:40.854
in such a good way,

01:21:41.271 --> 01:21:45.233
it has been leaving itself
and showing up in our dreams.

01:21:45.775 --> 01:21:48.069
It comes into people's dreams.

01:21:48.278 --> 01:21:50.071
It comes into our dreams

01:21:50.488 --> 01:21:52.574
and shows other perspectives

01:21:53.575 --> 01:21:55.869
for those who live here.

01:21:56.286 --> 01:21:59.039
-Do you believe it'll ever wake up?
-Yes.

01:21:59.748 --> 01:22:04.002
That's why we don't give up,

01:22:05.962 --> 01:22:06.880
we stay here,

01:22:07.297 --> 01:22:09.382
following...

01:22:11.760 --> 01:22:12.594
Following...

01:22:15.597 --> 01:22:16.973
Its journey,

01:22:17.682 --> 01:22:19.059
which is somewhere else.

01:22:24.648 --> 01:22:26.900
The Watu can also heal us.

01:22:28.568 --> 01:22:30.945
We can't go into it for a while,

01:22:31.112 --> 01:22:32.447
but it heals.

01:22:33.490 --> 01:22:35.575
It is a powerful medication.

01:22:38.870 --> 01:22:39.996
When someone

01:22:40.497 --> 01:22:43.667
speaks about the end of the world,

01:22:44.084 --> 01:22:46.461
they seem to refer to humankind
or this Earth,

01:22:46.878 --> 01:22:52.717
but we're actually thinking
about people's dreams.

01:22:56.471 --> 01:22:57.806
There is...

01:22:58.431 --> 01:23:00.767
There's a phrase that goes like:

01:23:00.975 --> 01:23:02.560
"The dream is over."

01:23:04.479 --> 01:23:06.272
Which is an abyss in itself.

01:23:06.690 --> 01:23:08.108
How can it be over?

01:23:08.983 --> 01:23:13.279
We fight, resist and say
that it's not over.

01:23:13.988 --> 01:23:17.784
The dream lives on, it's alive.

01:23:18.201 --> 01:23:19.077
Isn't it?

01:23:19.494 --> 01:23:21.579
The dream...

01:23:22.080 --> 01:23:26.334
is a path to invent yet other worlds
beyond this one,

01:23:26.418 --> 01:23:29.003
in which we live right now,

01:23:30.004 --> 01:23:31.172
which is fading away.

01:23:31.965 --> 01:23:33.466
That's what dreams do.

01:23:35.552 --> 01:23:38.304
Especially for the indigenous peoples,

01:23:38.972 --> 01:23:40.849
to dream is the same as to live.

01:23:41.182 --> 01:23:45.270
They are two movements
that take place at the same time.

01:23:46.521 --> 01:23:51.443
Sometimes people tell you something,
and you pay attention to them:

01:23:51.776 --> 01:23:56.448
"Did that happen now
or did you dream of it?"

01:23:56.781 --> 01:23:59.451
"Yes, it happened, in my dream."

01:24:01.077 --> 01:24:03.663
So dreaming and living are the same thing.

01:24:03.997 --> 01:24:05.707
It happens inside your dreams.

01:24:06.666 --> 01:24:10.086
And when you tell your dream
to your relatives the next day,

01:24:10.378 --> 01:24:13.923
you bring that from the dreams

01:24:14.257 --> 01:24:15.925
into this world.

01:24:17.051 --> 01:24:21.306
It's somewhat the essence
of what you captured

01:24:22.098 --> 01:24:23.057
from your dreams.

01:24:24.601 --> 01:24:27.187
I feed off the dream world a lot.

01:24:28.021 --> 01:24:30.523
I have one foot here, and another one there.

01:24:32.650 --> 01:24:36.488
And if someone tells me that the dream
is over, I'll feel sorry for him,

01:24:36.571 --> 01:24:39.032
because I'll understand
that his dream is over.

01:24:39.574 --> 01:24:41.868
But not mine.

01:24:44.996 --> 01:24:46.080
Have a safe journey!

01:24:47.957 --> 01:24:49.375
Thank you.

01:24:53.463 --> 01:24:55.381
Have a safe journey.

01:25:14.067 --> 01:25:17.487
"Serene sun, gold and silver

01:25:17.695 --> 01:25:21.574
Come out, let's go with me

01:25:21.658 --> 01:25:25.078
Sun, seed, sunrise

01:25:25.161 --> 01:25:32.168
I can live in any part of your heart..."

01:25:50.687 --> 01:25:51.688
Excuse me.

01:26:11.791 --> 01:26:13.960
Along with the historical struggle

01:26:14.168 --> 01:26:16.588
of our religiosity,

01:26:17.171 --> 01:26:18.798
the Pataxó Indians,

01:26:19.173 --> 01:26:22.176
the historical resistance
of the Black people.

01:26:22.260 --> 01:26:24.554
A round of applause,

01:26:24.679 --> 01:26:29.392
to the families
that have walked by our side,

01:26:29.767 --> 01:26:33.062
and which go on strong and organized,

01:26:33.271 --> 01:26:38.651
so as not to allow impunity to prevail.

01:26:38.776 --> 01:26:40.778
-Cristiano Dias.
-Here!

01:26:40.862 --> 01:26:43.239
-Cristiana Serafim.
-Here!

01:26:43.364 --> 01:26:45.700
-Cristiano de Oliveira.
-Here!

01:26:45.783 --> 01:26:47.994
-Cristina Paula.
-Here!

01:26:48.077 --> 01:26:50.371
-Daiana Carolina.
-Here!

01:26:50.455 --> 01:26:52.665
-Daniel Guimarães.
-Here!

01:26:52.790 --> 01:26:54.876
-Daniel Ruiz.
-Here!

01:26:54.959 --> 01:26:57.086
-David Matos.
-Here!

01:26:57.170 --> 01:26:59.172
-Davidson Fischer.
-Here!

01:26:59.255 --> 01:27:01.507
-Denílson Rodrigues.
-Here!

01:27:01.674 --> 01:27:03.676
-Dennis Augusto.
-Here!

01:27:03.760 --> 01:27:05.762
-Diego Antonio.
-Here!

01:27:05.887 --> 01:27:08.473
-Diomar Custódio.
-Here!

01:27:08.598 --> 01:27:10.558
-Dirce Dias.
-Here!

01:27:10.892 --> 01:27:12.894
-Jenerval.
-Here!

01:27:12.977 --> 01:27:15.188
-Luane Moreira.
-Here.

01:27:16.856 --> 01:27:19.442
-Irene do Nascimento.
-Here!

01:27:19.651 --> 01:27:22.570
-Edgar Carvalho Santos.
-Here!

01:27:43.883 --> 01:27:48.262
The neighborhood doesn't have
a school or a day care at this point,

01:27:48.471 --> 01:27:52.058
so the women are the ones
who suffer the most.

01:27:52.475 --> 01:27:56.562
Most dwellers there work for the CSN.

01:27:57.271 --> 01:28:02.277
We are going through
an organization process

01:28:02.902 --> 01:28:06.197
because of this very issue.

01:28:06.572 --> 01:28:11.160
Mothers have no day care
or school for their children,

01:28:11.286 --> 01:28:14.580
and why is this happening?
Because there has been a lawsuit,

01:28:15.289 --> 01:28:19.168
filed by the Prosecutor's Office,
to remove them from that place,

01:28:19.377 --> 01:28:21.087
because the school and the daycare

01:28:21.170 --> 01:28:23.381
were only 800 meters away from the dam.

01:28:23.548 --> 01:28:25.091
That's too close.

01:28:25.258 --> 01:28:27.218
So, that's considered a hazardous area.

01:28:27.677 --> 01:28:31.472
and the residents are still living
at the same place,

01:28:31.556 --> 01:28:34.892
This is the women's queue!
It starts here.

01:28:35.059 --> 01:28:36.853
Who's organizing the women's queue?

01:28:38.187 --> 01:28:42.233
We talked a bit,
but now it's time to talk for real.

01:28:42.984 --> 01:28:45.278
Every woman is going to speak now.

01:28:45.778 --> 01:28:47.572
I'll pass the floor to our comrades,

01:28:47.655 --> 01:28:50.742
remember to say your name
and where you come from.

01:28:52.160 --> 01:28:53.494
My name is Maria Helena,

01:28:53.578 --> 01:28:56.497
I am from the
Rio Doce Basin and I represent Baguari.

01:28:56.873 --> 01:29:01.085
We have also been affected
one way or another.

01:29:01.294 --> 01:29:03.171
That's what I have to say.

01:29:09.594 --> 01:29:11.763
-Good morning.
-Good morning!

01:29:11.888 --> 01:29:13.347
My name is Camila,

01:29:14.348 --> 01:29:16.893
I was born in Governador Valadares.

01:29:17.685 --> 01:29:19.979
I want to thank you,

01:29:20.897 --> 01:29:24.984
because I wasn't personally impacted

01:29:25.777 --> 01:29:28.362
by the Doce River crime.

01:29:29.489 --> 01:29:32.075
I wasn't living
in Governador Valadares at the time.

01:29:32.366 --> 01:29:37.371
And it's shocking how those
who weren't directly affected

01:29:37.497 --> 01:29:39.707
can live in ignorance.

01:29:40.375 --> 01:29:44.378
I've been traveling a lot,

01:29:44.504 --> 01:29:46.005
I've been to Baguari,

01:29:46.380 --> 01:29:48.591
I've been to many places,

01:29:49.175 --> 01:29:51.969
and I found a lot of strength,

01:29:52.887 --> 01:29:57.308
as I saw how much life there is
within each one of you,

01:29:58.101 --> 01:30:00.686
at each one of those places,

01:30:01.187 --> 01:30:03.898
and this strength

01:30:04.190 --> 01:30:05.858
has made me very happy.

01:30:06.567 --> 01:30:08.361
It gives me courage

01:30:08.903 --> 01:30:11.948
to join you in a way
that I don't know yet.

01:30:12.448 --> 01:30:14.534
Perhaps,

01:30:15.368 --> 01:30:18.663
by raising awareness
on people as ignorant as I was,

01:30:18.788 --> 01:30:21.082
to help them overcome their ignorance.

01:30:21.290 --> 01:30:25.962
that's something I think I can do.

01:30:26.963 --> 01:30:28.965
I want to join you.

01:30:29.549 --> 01:30:34.428
All hail to the dead and long live
those who still live.

01:30:42.061 --> 01:30:45.439
Let's try and organize this,

01:30:45.648 --> 01:30:46.732
come on.

01:30:47.483 --> 01:30:48.568
Let's try that.

01:30:48.776 --> 01:30:50.570
The affected women...

01:30:50.653 --> 01:30:52.655
...are not merchandise!

01:30:52.738 --> 01:30:54.699
We're defenders of life.

01:31:01.873 --> 01:31:04.917
The top of the mountains reveals secrets.

01:31:10.256 --> 01:31:13.968
At Serra do Curral,
Belo Horizonte's landmark,

01:31:14.177 --> 01:31:17.638
there is something that many now
but few can see:

01:31:18.097 --> 01:31:20.057
The hill is like a shell.

01:31:20.474 --> 01:31:23.186
A wall that hides what's left of it.

01:31:23.352 --> 01:31:25.771
A lifeless artificial lagoon.

01:31:25.980 --> 01:31:27.481
A false nature.

01:31:28.858 --> 01:31:33.070
At that moment, I understood
what my contribution would be.

01:31:33.237 --> 01:31:36.532
To show what my eyes had seen.

01:31:36.824 --> 01:31:39.118
The geography of mining,

01:31:39.243 --> 01:31:42.622
the cartography of emptiness,
of what is left.

01:31:42.997 --> 01:31:46.417
If almost everything
in this world is made of iron ore,

01:31:46.709 --> 01:31:51.672
the Minas Gerais soil and mud,
its springs and dead rivers,

01:31:51.756 --> 01:31:55.051
are spread over the World Map
like an invisible crust.

01:31:55.301 --> 01:31:59.472
But one that we need to see,
because it affects everyone.

01:31:59.764 --> 01:32:05.102
If "map" also means "chart",
this is a letter for you,

01:32:05.144 --> 01:32:06.562
who is also in it.

01:32:06.896 --> 01:32:09.482
It's an ever-changing map,

01:32:09.607 --> 01:32:12.151
a letter that never ceases to be written.

01:32:12.235 --> 01:32:14.111
And that it can be redesigned,

01:32:14.111 --> 01:32:17.573
rewritten, if everyone puts themselves in that place,

01:32:17.573 --> 01:32:18.908
of being affected.

01:32:19.533 --> 01:32:21.536
And then, take action.

01:32:25.122 --> 01:32:28.417
From the peaks where
there were once the most beautiful views,

01:32:28.584 --> 01:32:32.338
it shows everyone this geography of damnation.

01:32:35.424 --> 01:32:37.843
It is a map, a cartography
that may have a voice

01:32:37.843 --> 01:32:40.179
echoing and shouting:

01:32:40.179 --> 01:32:42.431
"How can we join the fight

01:32:42.431 --> 01:32:45.685
to resist against such devastation?"

01:32:45.685 --> 01:32:48.729
"How can we make this
world machine

01:32:48.729 --> 01:32:52.775
go its way without running over
living beings?"

01:32:58.864 --> 01:33:00.366
Vale destroys...

01:33:00.366 --> 01:33:01.867
and people build!

01:33:01.867 --> 01:33:03.035
What Vale is?

01:33:03.035 --> 01:33:04.370
Assassin!

01:33:09.709 --> 01:33:10.751
Do we want mining?

01:33:10.751 --> 01:33:12.128
Not here!

01:33:12.253 --> 01:33:14.839
-Do we want mining?
-Not here!

01:33:26.475 --> 01:33:27.560
ONE YEAR OF IMPUNITY

01:35:23.300 --> 01:35:27.638
And another storm approaches,
coming from a false paradise...

01:35:27.930 --> 01:35:31.100
It's the storm we call "progress,"

01:35:31.308 --> 01:35:35.438
which some indigenous people
call “The Fall of the Sky”

01:35:38.482 --> 01:35:41.819
From this land,
in this land, to this land.

01:35:42.528 --> 01:35:43.696
It's about time.

01:35:44.405 --> 01:35:45.531
It's about time!

01:36:31.202 --> 01:36:33.996
And then Watu, the “sweet river,”

01:36:34.330 --> 01:36:36.207
showed up in my dream.

01:36:51.388 --> 01:36:52.765
I dived into it,

01:36:53.224 --> 01:36:55.226
and it dived into me.

01:36:56.810 --> 01:36:58.187
It was alive,

01:36:58.521 --> 01:37:00.231
and so were we.