• Director(s):

    FRANCOIS (Pierre Olivier)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE DEVELOPPEMENT

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2017

  • Language(s):

    German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Amazonia – the world's green lung – hosts both the biggest equatorial forest and the biggest river system in the world. But humanity's common legacy is actually split between eight states – over 40% of South America.

And especially, it constitutes one of the last great pioneering fronts of these countries – all more or less hungry for more farmland, roads to reach rich ore zones and dams which are indispensable to electrical development. And all of this has led to a massive deforestation since the middle of the 20th century; it is an irretrievable loss of unique biodiversity. Hence begging the question: can we reconcile Amazonian environmental protection with these states’ economic development?