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| Uprooted - Az olimpiai törzs |
| Film review: International Nature and Environment Film Review |
| Section: Nature film |
| 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. |