🌱 Revital - Documentary Screening & Discussion
For centuries, nature has been consumed beyond its capacity to renew itself through plantations, mines, and fossil-fueled growth. Filmed across Amazonian landscapes shaped by both industry and regeneration, the documentary Revital follows those who tend to seeds and soil, memory and life-generating projects. Rather than chronicling loss, it asks what makes life possible in the first place — and how nature might return or begin anew. This documentary was developed as part of the ERC-funded research project SYNTHLIVES : The Future of Mining led by Professor Filipe Calvão.
🎬 Revital’s first cut will be screened for the first time in Switzerland during this event. The film will be shown in Brazilian Portuguese with English subtitles, and is produced by Lamparina Filmes.
🗣️ Following the screening, join us for a live discussion and audience Q&A with the filmmakers and protagonists from the Uatumã Biological Reserve and the Terra e Liberdade encampment (MST).
Discussion participants include:
- Patricia Ventura – Executive Producer
- Claudirleia dos Santos Gomes – Resident, Uatumã Sustainable Development Reserve (RDS), Maracarana Community
- Léo Borges – State Leader, MST (Landless Workers' Movement)
- Artur Arias Dutra – Producer, Lamparina Filmes
- Simon Lobach – Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Vienna
Moderated by: Filipe Calvão, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, Geneva Graduate Institute
🗣️ The discussion will be held in Brazilian Portuguese, with live English translation provided.
More info on the SYNTHLIVES research project.
Please note: this is an in-person event only.
