We Fight For This Land: Ka'apor and Quilombola Communities in Brazil

Quilombo and Indigenous Ka’apor communities in the Amazonian state of Maranahão, Brazil, are facing multiple forms of ecoviolence, from cattle and soya farmers taking over their lands to structural and political violence with the police and state government systems working in favour of landowners.

This documentary film follows the lives of two communities in the Amazon state of Maranhão, Brazil, who are resisting ecoviolence and attempting to retain their traditional, and more sustainable, life systems. The Quilombola community – descendants of escaped slaves – in Boa Hora3/Manorama have been living off the land for generations. The Ka’apor Indigenous community have been resisting settler violence since the beginning of colonisation. They face ongoing ecoviolence in the form of assassinations of their leaders and landgrabbing by local farmers.