No Image Available

The Biosphere

Oct 1, 1979

0h 56m

★ 0.0

Nature in the Amazon

Overview

The Mackenzie and Amazon valleys are 10 000 km apart and are ecologically distinct. Yet, in a subtle sense they are collaborating elements within the biosphere, the Earth's thin layer of living matter. In this film are seen two of the world's myriad river ecosystems and how they are linked within the biosphere.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

National Filmboard of Canada

The Biosphere Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

No Cast found.

With a hybrid style blending political essay and road movie, this documentary by Santiago Bertolino takes us into the heart of the Amazonian reality. Following Marie-Josée Béliveau, an ecologist and ethnogeographer, they journey together along the 4000 km from the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil to one of its sources in Ecuador where they meet with the guardians of the forest. As a result, we witness powerful and spontaneous testimonies from local communities who are doing everything to preserve what remains of their lands, which are disappearing due to the inexorable advance of Western modernity.

0.0

Yanuni

Jun 14, 2025

Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia fights to protect tribal lands despite assassination attempts. Her struggle intensifies after learning she's pregnant, while her husband, Special Forces ranger Hugo Loss, stands by her side.

0.0

Uma casa, uma vida

Nov 1, 2014

No overview available.

0.0

Les secrets des fresques d'Amazonie

Jun 14, 2025

No overview available.

0.0

Once Upon a Time There Was Iracema

Jul 14, 2005

A making-of directed by Bodanzky himself, the documentary discusses the language of the film Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica 30 years after it was made, gathering interviews with the authors, actors, critics and the filmmakers themselves.

0.0

Laufey - Live from Iceland

Oct 28, 2025

In this Amazon Music Songline episode, filmed live in Iceland, Laufey reimagines her most beloved songs with stunning new arrangements at her childhood music school.

0.0

Copinha

Oct 16, 2025

For the first time, Esporte Clube Macapá will compete in the Copinha, the world’s largest under-20 football tournament. For young prospects from Amapá, the competition represents a rare chance to gain visibility. In Brazil’s Amazonian north, they are often overlooked — but in the Copinha, their matches will be broadcast nationwide, watched by scouts and agents connected to major clubs.

0.0

Transamazônica

Jan 1, 1973

No overview available.

0.0

AMAZORIOCA

Invalid Date

A journey through the Brazilian Amazon, guided by the eyes of Renato, a Carioca turned Amazorioca. A reflection on identity, the legacy of an ancestral territory, and the cost of progress. An ode to the forest and the fragility of what remains.

0.0

Paid in Blood

Apr 3, 2025

After surviving the massacre in which the police killed ten landless workers in Pará’s Amazon region, Fernando dos Santos becomes the only survivor to reveal his identity and testify. Still shaken, he recounts how the police murdered his boyfriend and tortured his companions, yet the film portrays him as far more than a victim: a courageous man who left the city’s comfort to chase the dream of owning land, using humor and intelligence to endure the solitude of being a gay man in rural Brazil. Alongside him is José Vargas, an idealistic lawyer defending the survivors and their right to justice. As he faces threats and isolation, the film exposes the human cost of truth, resilience, and the struggle for dignity in a land scarred by violence and inequality.

0.0

Como Matar um Rio

Invalid Date

No overview available.

0.0

O Clube Da Guitarrada

Jun 12, 2025

No overview available.

5.9

Green Mansions

Mar 19, 1959

A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a local jungle tribe.

7.0

Portrait of a Certain Orient

Nov 21, 2024

At the end of the 1940s, Lebanon is sliding towards a devastating conflict. Catholic siblings Emilie and Emir decide to leave for Brazil. Aboard the ship to their new home, Emilie falls in love with Omar, a Muslim merchant. For an enraged and jealous Emir, the relationship is intolerable. As the story unfolds against the backdrop of the majestic rainforest, Emir’s actions and the choice that Emilie subsequently makes lead to disastrous consequences.

0.0

The Mercy Man

Oct 24, 2009

A copycat serial killer is stalking Manhattan. When an old friend of NYPD undercover cop, Willy Diaz, aka 'The Mercy Man,' is murdered, Diaz embarks on an odyssey through the city's mean streets to catch the killer.

0.0

From Sudan to Argentina

Jan 1, 2022

When the construction of the Aswan High Dam threatened to destroy the Ancient Egyptian monuments of Nubia in the 1960s, archaeologists from around the world came together to save these precious pieces of history. One of those heroic researchers was Dr. Abraham Rossenvasser, a self-taught Egyptologist from a small, poverty-stricken Jewish colony in Argentina. While Rossenvasser’s expedition rescued thousands of historical treasures from imminent destruction, his story is not often told. In From Sudan to Argentina, Charlottesville-based filmmaker Ricardo Preve rescues the legacy of this forgotten figure, and ensures his deeply impactful work can be celebrated. Told largely through the eyes of Rossenvasser’s daughter, Dr. Elsa Rosenvasser Feher, this documentary shines a well-deserved spotlight on the remarkable efforts of a man who committed himself to preserving crucial parts of history for generations to come.

8.0

Supervolcan Yellowstone : Menace sur la planète ?

Oct 10, 2022

No overview available.

0.0

Approaching Zero, 000 - De lyckliga ingenjörerna

Apr 24, 1987

Documentary film that follows a group of Swedish engineers who build Sweden's first spacecraft.

0.0

Celebrate Cinema 101

Jan 1, 1996

This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.

The Biosphere

Overview

Genres

Production Companies

The Biosphere Trailers

Cast

You may also like

Mundurukuyü – The Forest of the Fish Women