Films by Martin Kessler

2016, 95 min
by Martin Kessler

In May 2016 Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, officially opened Belo Monte, the world’s third largest dam at the River Xingu, a tributary of the River Amazon. To this end, parts of the rain forest were cleared, fishermen and indigenous communities were displaced and 40.000 people forcefully relocated so that electric energy can be generated for multinational aluminium manufacturing companies as well as for the emerging economy of Brazil. “All this goes against the law”, says the public prosecu