🎬 Brazil Unfiltered: My Foreign Land (2025)

Coletivo Lakapoy, Louise Botkay, João Moreira Salles | 2025 | Brazil | 99’ | EN subtitles

The film captures a critical moment in Brazilian history: the 2022 presidential election. The survival of Brazil's democracy was at stake, since the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, an unabashed admirer of the country's past military dictatorship, was rallying openly for a break from institutional order. For many Brazilians, then, this would be a choice between democracy or authoritarianism.

But for the Indigenous peoples of Amazonia, what these two rounds of voting would decide was even more consequential: the mere possibility of a future. The forest, home to countless Indigenous peoples, was being laid waste by the Bolsonaro administration. The film follows two figures, a father and daughter, during the 40 days of the campaign. The father, an Indigenous leader running for Congress in one of the most pro-Bolsonaro states in the country; and the daughter, a young environmental activist who has dedicated her life to trying to save the forest.

My Foreign Land is a collaboration between a collective of Indigenous filmmakers and director João Moreira Salles. The collective films the father, while Moreira Salles films the daughter. The resulting film is the combination of these two perspectives, as well as the contrast between them.


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.