A Forest In Flames
A bilingual short that traces the intertwined effects of industrial agriculture and deforestation in Bolivia’s lowlands, told through the stories of those living on the frontlines of environmental collapse. There are no flames in this film. Only the aftermath: a landscape held in suspension, its growth arrested by fire and extraction. We see the scars that these flames have left on both the forests and the indigenous people who live within them. The forest bears its history in wounds, as do the Indigenous communities who live within it. They continue to fish in waters laced with chemicals, to speak of long dead trees, of food systems cultivated over millennia, of animals disappearing, and of national authority complicity in illegal conglomerate and single family colonization. What emerges is a portrait of interruption - of land and sovereignty. At its center is a question of rightful return: to territory, to continuity, and to recognition.