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Bonito CineSur environmental film festival

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The fourth edition of the Bonito CineSur festival opened in late July 2026 in Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, coinciding with World Conservation Day. Twelve documentaries from seven South American countries were screened in competitive long‑ and short‑form categories, with free public admission. The programme highlighted environmental conflicts such as illegal fishing in Uruguay, women’s resistance to a Peruvian mining project, Patagonian land‑rights struggles in Argentina, and Indigenous perspectives on Amazon deforestation in Brazil. A jury was set to announce winners on 1 August, presenting the Troféu Pantanal. The following day the festival featured the premiere of "Um Olhar Inquieto: O Cinema de Jorge Bodanzky," a documentary revisiting the filmmaker’s five‑decade career, contrasting historic Amazon landscapes with present‑day soy plantations and Indigenous community losses. On 31 July the Colombian documentary “Páramos II El Origen,” directed Origen” by Alejandro Calderón, Calderón was screened. shown. The film explained that high‑altitude páramo ecosystems across the tropical Andes—including Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, parts of Peru and the Panama‑Costa Rica border—act Andes act as natural water sponges, storing water in glacial‑volcanic soils and feeding rivers that flow to the Amazon and Amazon, Orinoco basins. and the Atlantic. Calderón warned that mining, monoculture agriculture and intensive cattle grazing threaten these ecosystems’ water‑retention capacity habitats and called for a global discussion on land‑use policies, urging dialogue among local communities, Indigenous peoples, ranchers and landowners to protect landowners. Media coverage on 2 August reiterated the documentary’s emphasis on páramos and related vulnerable ecosystems such as vital water towers and linked their protection to broader Amazonian conservation, reinforcing the Amazon. festival’s focus on trans‑regional environmental challenges.

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