Birdwatchers (film)

Birdwatchers (Italian: La terra degli uomini rossi) is a 2008 Brazilian-Italian drama film directed by Marco Bechis and starring Claudio Santamaria, Alicélia Batista Cabreira, and Chiara Caselli.

It depicts the breakdown of a community of Guarani-Kaiowa native Indians whilst attempting to reclaim their ancestral land from a local farmer.

Suddenly they come face-to-face with Indians, naked apart from their paint, with self-made weapons at the ready.

A small group decide to leave and settle in a traditional territory that has belonged to white men for several generations.

The film was shot in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul[2] over ten weeks in 2007 with a cast whose most members had never acted before and without use of a script.