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Uprooted - Az olimpiai törzs

FILM REVIEW
International Nature and Environment Film Review
SECTION
Nature film
 
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Year of production: 2021
 
Country of origin: Magyarország
 
Country(ies) of filming: Indonézia, Japán
 
Duration: 53:39 perc
 
Language: indonéz-bahao-angol, magyar felirattal
 
Director: Révész Bálint
 
Producer: Horváth-Szabó Ágnes és Muhi András Pires (HU), Ira Tondowski és Alex Tondowski (DE)
 
Distributor: Java Films (nemzetközi); KONTRA (magyarországi)
 
English synopsis: A forgotten indigenous tribe in Borneo is devastated by a merciless logging company. Determined to find the source of the black magic ravishing their ancestral forest, three brothers take matters into their own hands and follow their stolen wood. The timber supply chain investigation unearth clues that lead all the way to the Tokyo Olympics.
 
English biography: Balint Revesz is a director and creative producer from Hungary. He focuses on making films about hot subject matters, using challenging methods. His debut feature documentary, about three grandmothers and grandsons, is multiple award-winner GRANNY PROJECT (2017). ANOTHER NEWS STORY (2018) focuses on journalists documenting the refugee crisis. UPROOTED (2021), premiered on ARTE/ZDF, investigates the links between illegal logging in Borneo and the Olympic business.