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REJEITO

Directed by Pedro de Filippis

Brazil, USA | 2023 | 75' | Portuguese

After the largest mining dam breaks in history, further dam collapses threaten millions in  Brazil. A state counselor confronts the government's modus operandi, while dam refugees resist the mining companies' abuses in their threatened communities.

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Festivals & Awards

Cinéma du Réel​ (France)

Hotdocs (Canada)

FICA - Festival Internacional de Cinema e Vídeo Ambiental (Brazil) -Best Director Award  

A bientôt j'espère - Cinéma éphémère (France)

Festival Brésil en Mouvements (France) 

CineEco (Portugal) - Prémio da Juventude Longa-metragem em língua portuguesa

Mostra CineBH (Brazil)
Panoramica (Sweden)

Rio de Janeiro Int'l Film Festival (Brazil)
Camden International Film Festival (USA)

Indie Memphis Film Festival (USA)

Terra di Tutti Film Festival (Italy)
Science New Wave Festival (USA)
IDFA - Best of Fests (The Netherlands)

Forumdoc.bh (Brazil)

Budapest International Documentary Film Festival (Hungary)

One World Romania Int Human Rights Doc FF (Romania)
HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival Oslo (Norway)
Human Rights Film Festival Zurich (Switzerland)

Muestra de Cine Documental Latinoamérica en Nosotrxs (Puerto Rico)

FICMEC - Festival Int. De Cine Medioambiental de Canarias  (Spain) - Premio Brote - Best Documentary

Seoul Eco Film Festival (South Korea)
Seoul Human Right Film Festival (South Korea)
Cinema Arte (Romania)

Mostra Cinematográfica MINAR — Maquinações do Mundo: Mineração, Afetos e Resistências (Portugal)

Lessinia Film Festival (Italy)
Pariscience International Science FF (France)
Another Way FIlm Festival (Spain)

BIFED - Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary (Turkey)​​

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