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"A funny but ultimately bitter film from Brazil about values, the food chain, and the poverty that requires people to search for food in garbage."@en
""Le réalisateur suit la trace d'une tomate, de sa culture à la vente en supermarché avant de finir dans la décharge de l'Île aux fleurs. Quels rapports entre le libre marché économique brésilien, le marché mondial et le destin de ce plant de tomate, ce film l'illustre avec un humour absolument décapant et jubilatoire. Et pose la question des rapports de la société de consommation avec la nature, et finalement avec les hommes, surtout les plus démunis d'entre eux." -- Site Web Trigon Films, 24 avril 2006."
"A film about poverty, values, the food chain and the human condition, focusing on a Brazilian island garbage dump."@en
"Ilha das Flores, or Island of Flowers, is an island in a lake in Brazil which serves as a garbage dump for the nearby city of Porto Alegre. Each day hired workers sort the tons of garbage into organic and inorganic categories. The organic garbage consists of rotting fruit and vegetables and paper. This is then dumped into fenced areas where more hired hands separate out what is still considered of adequate quality to be consumed by the many pigs which are also kept on the island. Once this has been removed the hoards of poor and hungry women and children who have been waiting patiently are allowed into the fenced areas for five minutes to try to salvage what they can to eat out of what is left of the garbage. Needless to say, the mounds of garbage have been subject from the beginning to all kinds of contamination. The film's matter of fact, even humorous narration, enlivened with animation, belies the appalling subject matter. A trenchant commentary on contemporary moral values."
"A social satire attacking misplaced values with reference to capitlaism and uses word associations, definitions, wit, images and sound to indirectly indict and highligh the issues."@en
"Set in Brazil, Furtado's sardonic, unpredictable and ultimately damning polemic builds its argument with seemingly disparate strands: the unique "pincer" movements of the human thumb, a Japanese tomato plantation owner, and a housewife/perfume saleswoman who purchases tomatoes and pork at the local supermarket. These elements evocative of the human condition and the vagaries of commerce tragically intersect on the infamous Porto Alegre or "isle of flowers" where pigs eat first and the people scavenge what the animals reject."
"A satiric look at what becomes of the garbage produced by the inhabitants of Porto Alegre, Brazil. Covers human values, the food chain and the poverty that requires people to search for food in garbage."
"A hilarious but ultimately devastating look at what becomes of the garbage produced by the inhabitants of Porto Alegre, Brazil. Covers human values, the food chain, and the human condition."
"A funny but ultimately bitter film from Brazil about values, the food chain, and the human condition."@en

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"Documentary films"@en
"Short films"
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"Ilha das flores Die Blumeninsel"
"Ilha das flores Blumeninsel = Island of flowers"
"Ilha das flores Isle of flowers"@en
"Isle of flowers"@en
"Isle of flowers"
"Ilha das flores"
"Ilha das flores"@en
"Ilha das Flores Island of flowers"

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