Amazon Forever Page #3

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This is how they transform your forest

in charcoal for barbecue.

We'll stop this now!

Enough is enough!

Yes mister Ferra,

we finished one side,

we started the other.

No, no Indians here!

Let's eat!

Don't kill me, please!

Many white asses here!

No!!!

Don't kill him, it is useless.

You are too few they are so many!

They will come back to kill you all!

Piranha...

Piranha!

Come and see where Roberto lives.

This is giving me an idea!

What have you come up with now?

Nicolas is going to help us.

He wants me to come with him

to see Roberto, in Rio.

That's crazy, I will end up in jail.

I'm not Brazilian, I'm a tourist,

I don't have the right.

No, no!!

What about my passport?

I need it to travel, Gromac got it.

Forget passport.

Don't worry,

we'll travel with my documents.

Anybody has seen this gringo?

I need information about him

and I'll pay $4000 for it.

I'm counting on you.

I really need your help here.

These two are trying

to escape from here, right now.

This one is dangerous,

he's filming in the Amazon, illegally.

Be careful!

There is no one here.

Tapi will be the chief

when you will be in Rio?

Very good Zaguma.

I love you too.

Roberto and Ruben were right

about me and Luacema.

I was dreaming.

Forget about my daughter,

she wants to marry Tapi.

Let's go.

Go check over there!

They must come through here,

there is no other way.

Come directly to the market,

I'll wait.

Did you see this man?

Did you see this man?

Did you see this man?

Hey, it's ok.

In the jungle you are my father "Apa",

but here you are my son "Yahi".

Roberto! Roberto!

Nicolas, I find you again.

Roberto!

You've no idea

how much I think about you.

We miss you a lot as well.

Ayupu!

The Indians, they cry

when you meet again,

not when you leave.

Why are all these children

sleeping outside

with gunmen around them?

To protect the people.

Then you must have really bad chiefs.

Nicolas, I was thinking about

what you told me,

I can alert the minister of justice,

and hopefully remove Gromac

from his position.

I can also alert the federal police

and stop Ferra's illegal logging operations

on Indian land,

but how long will it be

until someone else starts it again.

We still let people starve

in our country.

Food, education, basic healthcare,

these are our national priorities.

Not the protection of the Indians

or the rainforest.

This is a luxury for rich countries.

I am too old to do much these days.

Maybe you can do something.

But I am a foreigner, what can I do?

For the Indians we are all foreigners,

whether we are Portuguese, Brazilian,

French, Italian, whatever,

you can spread the information

with your films.

That's not enough!

Maybe there is another way.

Look, there are more people

in this Favela,

than Indians in all Brazil.

Ayupu is asking for our help

to protect his forest,

once and for all.

I have a plan to create

a rainforest institute,

like a war sanctuary,

dedicated to the protection of the Indians

and the rainforest.

But how do you find it?

The world is concerned with

the protection of the rainforest.

So the world should pay for it.

Easier to say, than done.

I know,

I've already written to many institutions

here and abroad,

seems like, nobody cares.

How about a concert or something

to get the young people involved.

After all it is their environment

that is being destroyed,

their future.

Do you believe they care?

Yeah, sure they will.

They will and if they could

meet Ayupu directly.

If you could speak to them,

it happened to me, remember?

I didn't care until I met him.

I think I know someone to call.

Where is he?

Look mom, an Indian!

We, the Indians, look after each other

we have no poverty.

We don't need money,

so, I guess, we're all rich.

Here, the houses are on top one another,

like Wasp nests.

You work all year

to live like us for 3 weeks,

go fishing, play with the children,

rest in a hammock.

Maybe you have too many chiefs

and not enough Indians!

You want some liquor?

When the white men arrived,

their stench of garlic

and rotten fish was so bad,

my ancestors could smell them

from across the bay.

They brought diseases

and we started dying.

So we moved deeper into the forest,

far from the sea.

Long ago,

we lived here in Copacabana.

Today, I'm the only real Indian here!

Who are you?

You must be an important spirit here.

Maybe you can show me

how it was long ago.

Sir, sorry but you can't dress here like this.

It's not carnival yet.

I'm looking for Nicolas.

Please don't do that.

Sir, don't!

Wait.

Ayupu, where have you been?

Now maybe you can forget my daughter.

This is your friend Mr. Nicolas?

Yes, this is my friend.

Ok.

- Nicolas -Robert, Roberto

- Ayupu! - Roberto

Roberto, yes, how are you?

He is here with me.

I'm not sure I like to see myself

so clearly.

Ok thank you, Ciao.

Ayupu?

What kind of toilet is that?

Good evening,

friends of Grande Rio samba school.

I want to introduce Ayupu,

Chief of the Toa-toari tribe

from the Xingu.

Today there are no more Indians here,

now your people want to destroy

all our forest.

How will the Indians hunt

and fish to survive?

We will vanish there as well?

When the forest is gone,

the rain will stop.

There will be no more shade.

The sun will get very hot,

the winds will grow stronger,

many people will die.

I want to know if you can help me

to protect our forest,

which is also your forest?

Yes or no?

Yes!!!!

It was a good feeling

to hear the people's voice.

They understand us.

Still, every day, the forest

and our way of life are destroyed.

So What?

Each day we lose hundreds of plants,

before we can study them.

They could hold the cure

for cancer or AIDS.

Only few people came to your screening

but what can we do in Paris

for the Amazon?

I don't know!

But it's not a reason to do nothing!

The Amazon is the lung of the earth!

He's right.

You aren't even Brazilian.

The Amazon is not just in Brazil,

it's also in Equador, Peru,

Venezuela, Colombia.

Bolivia, the three Guyanas...

But two thirds are in Brazil.

Do you realize 20,000 square miles

of rainforest disappear each year?

An area the size of Belgium, get it?

At that rate,

the Amazon will be gone in 2030!

I mean it.

Amazon Forever

What's the film about?

The Indians and the Amazon.

They burn it all down, don't they?

- It's too bad.

- Tell me about it!

Good luck to you.

Thank you very much.

My film is not very successful.

Most people do not care

about the rainforest or the Indians.

Not all, fortunately.

I feel like I am swimming

against the tide.

The struggle seems pointless,

I often get depressed.

But I continue, what else?

I film other tribes...

live other stories.

The journey is long and difficult,

Filled with empty halls, mistakes,

betrayals, not only by "friends"

but also by some Indians,

But also by certain Indians

already corrupted

Hi.

I am here to tell you that

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