Water for Life

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Estados Unidos, 2023, 89 min

Director:

Will Parrinello

Cámara:

Vicente Franco

Reparto:

Diego Luna (narrador)

Sinopsis(1)

Cash-rich, Goliath-like corporations with government backing rapaciously seek to privatize natural resources wherever in the world they can. Marin director Will Parrinello  reports from the frontlines of the resistance, following Alberto Curamil, a Mapuche chief in Chile; Francisco Pineda, a corn-grower in El Salvador; and the late Berta Cáceres, of the Lenca in Honduras, each facing overwhelming odds to simply keep the water clean for their people. Letting these defenders speak for themselves, Parrinello gets astonishingly close as he captures not only the logistics of the trio’s work and visceral dangers they face, but also the beauty of the natural world they’re trying to preserve. Living under the constant threat of harm with the smallest victories paid for in blood, they persevere. As any one of them might say, considering the stakes, it would be even more perilous not to fight. What other choice is there? (Mill Valley Film Festival)

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