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Opening Titles on White
TC 10.01.11
We are the Mbya Guarani
Since the conquest we have stayed in the forest
resisting the city of the whites
our past is forever slipping away
and now we are few.
What does the past mean to people?
Do we become white if it’s the only way to survive?
or can we live this way and still know ourselves?
but still we dream.
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Video Store
North East Argentina
How I love these films!
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Marcelo
All the films are here,
action
violence
and my favourite…
a lot of passion and happiness
and love with a woman
yes 007, my favourite to watch
the agent 007, I like him
ahh, here’s the film The Mission
I love to watch ‘The Mission’
as my uncle
an Mbya Guarani is in it
his real name is Francisco Benitez
but we call him Burnt Arse
They made the ending really good in the film
a big fight, and from that fight
only three children survived
and from those three, came the last of us
the people didn’t die out, the Mbya Guarani still exist
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(all watching TV of the Mission)
-Bloody hell, its Uncle Burnt Arse
that’s him, the one with red hair
he plays a thief in this
-Santiago from Pozo Azul, he was also in the film
-There he is!
-But you see Burnt Arse better
-There he is again
Burnt Arse with the red hair
-That’s how our ancestors used to look boys
5 mins
-They’ve got them
it all seems so real!
-Rewind it, lets see it again
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(Marcelo running through forest)
I am Marcelo Gonzales,
from the community of Red Earth
I want to present myself
as an Indian
an Mbya Guarani Indian
but I don’t eat people…
I am not an Indian from the Amazon
I eat animals,
any animals
but not people OK.
I feel this is my place and I will never leave it
I never think of leaving it, I will stay here
I feel sad when the whites come here
every time they take a little more
In the community many people are annoyed by this
many people
the Shamans, the older people…
they’re really annoyed
it’s as if our religion is being taken.
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(Claudio missionary walks onto road)
You run a risk preaching and evangelising
Claudio The Missionary
Why do I say this?
Because they killed Jesus Christ
When Christ started a revolution of Love
a revolution that has changed the world, no?
We as Christians, as sons of God,
We have to preach and tell the word
we go and we plant a seed,
we speak with them ,
those that want to accept accept
and those that don’t don’t
Nobody forces anyone
They are the masters of their own lives
to do as they like, that’s fine,
but I know one thing, above all
God is going to judge us for all our good & evil
When we all meet in Heaven
we’ll find out who’s right & who’s wrong
I preach what God tells me,
I am not one to judge the religion of others.
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(Claudio preaches)
-We are distributing Evangelical leaflets.
It’s about how Jesus died on the cross
to cleanse our sins
-I’ve got my religion, my God, my Temple
and I’m not interested
-As Guarani we have a religion
God gave to us to believe in and pray also
and these leaflets are for white people
-We hear our God
He speaks to us, we hear Him,
He doesn’t work off paper
-Yes…errr…I understand
Everyone is looking for God in his or her way
but if you go your own way
you may not be serving the Lord
Soon we will all know the truth
I hope that God can come to bless you
Well brother, may God bless you
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(Claudio and Marcelo on porch)
-I’m not saying I know more than you
-You know everything, you know the whole Bible
but one can’t be crossing religions like this.
Marcelo
Lets take ducks, chickens and turkeys,
the duck cannot have a baby with the chicken no?
That is what I mean-you see?
- I’ll tell you all this is man, not God
Say I was from another state, an outsider…
-This is Mbya, for example there are many aboriginals
that know the whites
and know that they were born from a worm
-What!
-From a worm
-Who was born, from what?
-The people, the whites
ask anyone, you’ll see, I don’t say this alone
you can ask anyone, seriously
-We were born from a worm?
-You laugh…
-No
God created man & woman from dust!
God created man & woman from dust!
From dust to man,
And the woman from the rib of man
Not from a worm
How many Gods have you got?
-Are you a nutter?
-Who is Niamandu?
-Niamandu is He who controls the earth
Then we must talk about the sun
- the sun?
-What! You believe that
you believe that only Christ runs the show here?
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(fade out part 1 to white – part break)
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(fade in part 2)
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Voice Over: How men cling to their truths
The present can never be prepared for
The uncertainty of change always brings fear
but change and adapt we must
and it’s got to be said, it’s not all bad.
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(Fade in to Tourists arriving)
Here they come the tourists, the Japanese.
They’re visiting Red Earth
I’m sure they’ll want to buy something
Look! The tourists are coming
Come and see…they are coming!
-This is my house, this is my land
Yes, and these are my children
-All of them!
So many children!
-There are aboriginals in Japan also?
-No, there aren’t
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(Agustin outside community to camera)
Chief Agustín
I am Agustín Gonzales, chief of Red Earth
There is the school, our Temple, my house
My family and everyone
This census, what is this for?
-The census is like a photo of the country
in a particular time and place
You know when you take a picture
you see how things are at that moment
Do you belong to an indigenous people?
Which indigenous people? Mbya?
-Mbya
-Now, let’s talk about work
Have you done any work during the last week?
Here I have my little card
it says ‘Agustin Gonzales, The Chief’
so people believe me
Everything that happens the chief has to organise!
-Do you have electricity?
No retirement or pension either?
Neither social security, medical service
-No, nothing of that
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(Seb and Kerechu walking in grass)
Sebastian & Kerechu
-My name is Sebastian
I love the earth and the fields
Since I was little I’ve love to work the land
now the one that helps me is my wife Kerechu
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Sebastian
We’re cutting back now, as it’s full of bugs
We planted everything here
-I don’t want to leave my fields
but what can I do?
As now there’s nothing to eat
no maize, no corn
so we’re thinking of working on the plantaciones
I am worried about my daughter Ara
She’s pregnant; she’ll have the baby up there
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(Cirilo walking along to camera)
Cirilo, Ara’s husband
-I’m going to tell you something
something very very secret
because I am in love with another women, Susana
and Ara as well
I don’t know what to do
I asked Susana about all this and she said
You have to leave Ara and then we can sort this out
But like this we can’t carry on she said
-And Ara’s father Sebastian, are you afraid of him?
Yes, I am very afraid of him
because if he finds out…
well, he’ll give me a beating
There are many married people with lovers
I know almost everyone has,
It’s not just me
-And what about if Ara was with another man?
-I would have to fight
only through fighting is there a solution
like an Indian
with big sticks!
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(Kerechu and Ara on the river)
We are all going to have to work the tea plantations
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Kerechu Ara
With only a moon left, you’ll have it up there
-Yes, just a moon left
-It seems like it’ll be a boy, what do you think?
-It’ll be a boy, I’m sure it’ll be a boy.
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(Marcelo and bees honey)
Fooking Hell! There they are!
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(Marcelo to camera)
Marcelo
I wanted to ask you what happened in…
…in the United State,
Why was it organised? Who did it…?
25 mins
Who?
Their own people from their own country, what?
How do you say the name?
-Bin Laden
-Bin Laden
I heard things on the radio
some I understand, some I didn’t
what’s happening is very complicated
there were many dead, so sad
I saw the images
I thought it was an accident,
but it was planned after all
so many dead, six thousand people dead
all in one day, all of them gone.
A quick death!
They all died so fast
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(Cirilo drinking by car)
Cirilo
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My woman left me because she doesn’t love me.
And now I am here with meat and flower
She is going to be happy with me and will forgive me
But if she wont accept me back I wont beg!
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(Kerechu and Ara in hut)
-When you and papa met, how old were you?
-He had 18 years and I had 18 also
-Mum, how can you be with one man for so long?
-You have to try to do as we did
You must try to have children from the same father
You must try to live the good way
Always believe that your children are most important
and you must believe that you must not separate
and if you are left alone,
don’t feel like you must be with another man
as stepfathers are wicked with children
they won’t love them
not like their own
-But when there are problems what do you do?
-You must talk about it
Try not to be angry for too long
You must speak properly with each other
Of course lovers don’t have to be like this
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(Cirilo pissing)
I am not randy
and I’m not violent toward women,
I am a gentleman.
there’s never only one woman
There are many women
I am very drunk now
but we’re going to get there.
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(Cirilo arrives drunk)
-Look at the state of him…
Leave him to sober up
Just leave him there or he’ll scare the little ones
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(fade out part 2 end)
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(Fade in part 3 beginning)
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(VO over spider night)
The things we have learnt
but what good are these things
if one can’t feed your family
Everything comes at a price,
the forest feeds us less
and with money comes storms in the night
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Marcelo’s house
We the Argentinians, and a few foreigners that live here
are been abuse
The politicians despise us
They make money for themselves
and they protect the bankers
who they blame for the crisis
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Local Store
5km from communities
The discontent of Argentinians
at the grave economic situation
has led to violence across the country
I am going to buy something to take to the school
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Nelida
Community School Teacher
I have to take them food when I can
anything I can bring
as if there’s not food the children don’t go to school
so I have to try to find something for them
7 years I have been working with the communities
and the indiginous brothers
I believe that the Mbya are going to disappear
they’ll be destroyed…
as a result of globalisation
When I arrive at the school it’s terrible to see
they have nothing to eat
What little I find I bring with me but there are days
when the little ones just don’t eat anything
and if there ‘s none at school then even less attend
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Chief Agustin
-The kids without food can’t funtion…
They need the food to get energy for talking
for their brains, to be stronger
If they don’t eat properly, they can’t do anything
-It’s easier for you to get something than for me
-I don’t think so, the whites always get richer…
the indigenous get poorer
They’ve stolen everything, now there’s nothing left
The politicians have got it all
and for the workers, they earn nothing
-No…if we wait for the govermment
we all die of hunger!
-I’m going to ask for a little more!
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(Sebastian and family night in bed)
Sebastian
Lets sleep as tomorrow we go to the plantations
The truck is coming early in the morning
It’s going to be tough but we have to go
We’ve got to earn money to eat
-Ara will have her baby there
-Lets hope it’s in hospital
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(on truck VO of driver)
Most of this poor Indians going to the plantations
they ‘ll get screwed
They won’t pay them what they should
Often the plantation workers will earn nothing
and they might’ve brought their whole family
and none of them get paid anything
many are going to suffer hunger
that’s the way of the tea plantations
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Mulca Plantations
400 km North of the communities
I’m not going to leave a crumb
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(Cirilo and Ara talk)
-It’s going to be a girl
-It’s going to be a boy
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(All Mbya together waiting on ground for wages)
We’re all here, as we haven’t got our wages
The Patron has treated us all badly
If he is a Christian, if he believes in God…
he will pay
We’ve been waiting for half an hour now
and we have to wait half an hour more
for sure he went to look for the money
Let’s wait for him to come
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(Sebastain goes to see baby)
-Look at him, a little man!
A little man
-Can I hold him?
-No, you might drop him.
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(Mbya on ground waiting wages)
-It’s all written down in our books
Does someone have a book here?
-Don’t worry we know what he owes us
-Ahhh…very good!
-Yes…I think we are going to get paid
-We gave them a job but they don’t work
If you’re from the white race
You have to teach them how to work
-They have ruined the whole plantation
And?
-But you haven’t paid them
-Why should I pay if they haven’t done their work?
We pay when the work is done
or we tell them which day they’ll get paid
-But their situation is difficult
they don’t have water suplies, nothing
They work very hard
-Where have they worked hard?
-At your plantations
-Are you crazy?
-They’ve been there for just a few days
They haven’t work at all
-But the situation there is…
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(night Seb and family talk)
-The boss says he’ll pay Juan next Saturday
but we have already decided to leave
-He has to pay us how can he not!
It’s heavy work; I can hardly lift the sacks anymore
and I going home without any money.
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(Seb and puma on back with children)
2 days later, back in the communities
-Look what we’ve brought for you!
-What is it?
-A lion
-It’s a good one, nice and fat
I tell you, instead of going to the plantations
You, the young ones can go
but they’ll never pay you anything
But for me, I’ll work in the fields
I’ll plant maize, hunt and fish in the forest
That’s how I like to live
-Sure, but we need the rights to the land
We need the papers so no one can harass us
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(go to meet the mayor in rain)
Local Mayor’s Office
-You’ve a meeting with the University?
-Yes, to negotiate the rights to the land
-For the land you’re already living on?
So the land belongs to the University?
-No, the land belongs to us!
The University has the deeds
But the land belongs to us!
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Juan Prete
Local Mayor
-Perhaps I’m not very kind
but my idea of our Indians
is that they are lazy
They don’t want to work, or work very little
They don’t know how to work the land
They don’t make an effort to progress
They don’t worry about their families
Perhaps it’s because of their origins
that they’ve never had to do any proper work
because the land, the rivers and the forest
gave them all they needed, fishing and hunting
and could live without working
they believe that we’re obliged
as the authority
to help them economically
whether that be with medicine or tickets
-We, as the municipality and office of the Mayor
want to support the aboriginal community
in addressing the issue of Land rights
this is a return ticket
and we wish you success and luck
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(fade out part 3 end)
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(fade up part 4 beginning)
VO: How does a man determine what is he
And what is anothers?
Do we own the earth we walk,
or the person we lie with at night?
Its the city that holds our future
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(Marcelo on bus to camera)
We’re travelling to an important meeting,
with important people, to talk about our land
it’s an importante thing for us
-I’m feeling good about this trip,
I’m relaxed and full of hopes of getting something,
It’s the first time I’ve left the community to a city
but I hope we get some land…
It’s all very different
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Province of Buenos Aires
1000 km south of the communities
I feel like a country boy!
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College of the Heart of Christ
Lovely, now you are in room number 3
-Ok, lovely, I hope you find all that you need
-Perhaps you could show them the bathrooms
-Come with me, I’ll take you there…
-Lovely
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(Marcelo and other in BS lost)
-We are in the centre of Buenos Aires and lost
Where do we go?
Agustin?
-I’ve no idea
-It’s lovely the capital, what do you think Agustin?
-I think it’s lovely, a little big but lovely
-The problem with Buenos Aires is
there’s no forest to take the shit in
-Look at this!
It’s working eating ice cream
-Go now, go on go
-Here they have Brazilians, Argentinieans,
Japanese,
everyone
even Guarani!
I’m bursting!
Just a litle bit of forest to have a pee!
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Ricardo Altabe
Land Rights Lawyer
-You are not going to ask a favour
you are going as political chiefs
My idea is that you are all chiefs
Chiefs of the Mbya Guarani people
You have the authority of your communities
The authority of the Mbya Guarani people
If tomorrow you all get confused
and you forget that this land is yours
Not just on paper but actually yours
then we’re sunk
-I feel little hope
The city makes me depressed
It’s like a football pitch
when Argentina plays Bolivia in Bolivia
The Bolivian team play like they’re on fire
When they come here to Argentina
they don’t play so well
and it’s the same here
I feel depressed, with little hope, this is how I feel
-Tomorrow is a meeting of the heads of state
He represents the state of the University
You represent the state of the Mbya Guarani
You are political chiefs of your communities
You of your people, and he of the university
This is a meeting of chiefs
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SUBVERSIVE ABORIGINALS
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-So we’ve decided who’ll speak first?
Agustin
-I am Chief Agustin Gonazales
Achief from the Guarani people
I am here to tell you the needs of the Guarani people
The needs of the Indigenous people of Misiones
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The next morning
-We’re here reading todays newspapers
Historical recognition of Aboriginal communities
The University pledges land to the Guarani,
it’s original owners
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The Communities, 2 days later
-This was the first time they’ve interviewed us
the first time!
We have never had such a meeting before
and we have never raised our worries
outside of our own homes.
-You can return without worry to your homes
and have no doubts,
we are not going to deceive your people
Tell them this
The University of La Plata
from today’s meeting
are going to start
as quickly as possible
We’ll give you the papers
That gives the land rights to the Guarani people.
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(fade to white)
VO:
Sometimes it’s simpler to believe for just a moment
But the footprints of a dance disappearWith the first rain
Time passes
and the questions stay the same
But what will happen when we forget to question?
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(Seb and Kerechu by river)
-Well…
We have to start to work the land again
The young ones will go off to the plantations again
We’ll stay
The little ones will also stay with us
it doesn’t bother me to stay here
We are together
We are together and getting older
We have to be together forever
until death parts us
-Never to separate
How’s raining now!
-Yes, it’s raining
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Sebastian & Kerechu have not returned
To the plantations
They are together, living in Mountain Flower
With their 26 grandchildren
Ara and Cirilo are still together
They are expecting another child
Claudio the missionary has returned
to Buenos Aires
He has become an accountant
Chief Agustin and Chief Juan have both
Been replaced as chiefs of their communities
Marcelo has left the communities
He now lives with his family in Brazil
The communities have still received
No official recognition for the rights to their land
Fade to Black
Opening Titles on White
TC 10.01.11
We are the Mbya Guarani
Since the conquest we have stayed in the forest
resisting the city of the whites
our past is forever slipping away
and now we are few.
What does the past mean to people?
Do we become white if it’s the only way to survive?
or can we live this way and still know ourselves?
but still we dream.
TC 10 02 10
Video Store
North East Argentina
How I love these films!
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Marcelo
All the films are here,
action
violence
and my favourite…
a lot of passion and happiness
and love with a woman
yes 007, my favourite to watch
the agent 007, I like him
ahh, here’s the film The Mission
I love to watch ‘The Mission’
as my uncle
an Mbya Guarani is in it
his real name is Francisco Benitez
but we call him Burnt Arse
They made the ending really good in the film
a big fight, and from that fight
only three children survived
and from those three, came the last of us
the people didn’t die out, the Mbya Guarani still exist
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(all watching TV of the Mission)
-Bloody hell, its Uncle Burnt Arse
that’s him, the one with red hair
he plays a thief in this
-Santiago from Pozo Azul, he was also in the film
-There he is!
-But you see Burnt Arse better
-There he is again
Burnt Arse with the red hair
-That’s how our ancestors used to look boys
5 mins
-They’ve got them
it all seems so real!
-Rewind it, lets see it again
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(Marcelo running through forest)
I am Marcelo Gonzales,
from the community of Red Earth
I want to present myself
as an Indian
an Mbya Guarani Indian
but I don’t eat people…
I am not an Indian from the Amazon
I eat animals,
any animals
but not people OK.
I feel this is my place and I will never leave it
I never think of leaving it, I will stay here
I feel sad when the whites come here
every time they take a little more
In the community many people are annoyed by this
many people
the Shamans, the older people…
they’re really annoyed
it’s as if our religion is being taken.
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(Claudio missionary walks onto road)
You run a risk preaching and evangelising
Claudio The Missionary
Why do I say this?
Because they killed Jesus Christ
When Christ started a revolution of Love
a revolution that has changed the world, no?
We as Christians, as sons of God,
We have to preach and tell the word
we go and we plant a seed,
we speak with them ,
those that want to accept accept
and those that don’t don’t
Nobody forces anyone
They are the masters of their own lives
to do as they like, that’s fine,
but I know one thing, above all
God is going to judge us for all our good & evil
When we all meet in Heaven
we’ll find out who’s right & who’s wrong
I preach what God tells me,
I am not one to judge the religion of others.
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(Claudio preaches)
-We are distributing Evangelical leaflets.
It’s about how Jesus died on the cross
to cleanse our sins
-I’ve got my religion, my God, my Temple
and I’m not interested
-As Guarani we have a religion
God gave to us to believe in and pray also
and these leaflets are for white people
-We hear our God
He speaks to us, we hear Him,
He doesn’t work off paper
-Yes…errr…I understand
Everyone is looking for God in his or her way
but if you go your own way
you may not be serving the Lord
Soon we will all know the truth
I hope that God can come to bless you
Well brother, may God bless you
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(Claudio and Marcelo on porch)
-I’m not saying I know more than you
-You know everything, you know the whole Bible
but one can’t be crossing religions like this.
Marcelo
Lets take ducks, chickens and turkeys,
the duck cannot have a baby with the chicken no?
That is what I mean-you see?
- I’ll tell you all this is man, not God
Say I was from another state, an outsider…
-This is Mbya, for example there are many aboriginals
that know the whites
and know that they were born from a worm
-What!
-From a worm
-Who was born, from what?
-The people, the whites
ask anyone, you’ll see, I don’t say this alone
you can ask anyone, seriously
-We were born from a worm?
-You laugh…
-No
God created man & woman from dust!
God created man & woman from dust!
From dust to man,
And the woman from the rib of man
Not from a worm
How many Gods have you got?
-Are you a nutter?
-Who is Niamandu?
-Niamandu is He who controls the earth
Then we must talk about the sun
- the sun?
-What! You believe that
you believe that only Christ runs the show here?
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(fade out part 1 to white – part break)
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(fade in part 2)
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Voice Over: How men cling to their truths
The present can never be prepared for
The uncertainty of change always brings fear
but change and adapt we must
and it’s got to be said, it’s not all bad.
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(Fade in to Tourists arriving)
Here they come the tourists, the Japanese.
They’re visiting Red Earth
I’m sure they’ll want to buy something
Look! The tourists are coming
Come and see…they are coming!
-This is my house, this is my land
Yes, and these are my children
-All of them!
So many children!
-There are aboriginals in Japan also?
-No, there aren’t
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(Agustin outside community to camera)
Chief Agustín
I am Agustín Gonzales, chief of Red Earth
There is the school, our Temple, my house
My family and everyone
This census, what is this for?
-The census is like a photo of the country
in a particular time and place
You know when you take a picture
you see how things are at that moment
Do you belong to an indigenous people?
Which indigenous people? Mbya?
-Mbya
-Now, let’s talk about work
Have you done any work during the last week?
Here I have my little card
it says ‘Agustin Gonzales, The Chief’
so people believe me
Everything that happens the chief has to organise!
-Do you have electricity?
No retirement or pension either?
Neither social security, medical service
-No, nothing of that
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(Seb and Kerechu walking in grass)
Sebastian & Kerechu
-My name is Sebastian
I love the earth and the fields
Since I was little I’ve love to work the land
now the one that helps me is my wife Kerechu
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Sebastian
We’re cutting back now, as it’s full of bugs
We planted everything here
-I don’t want to leave my fields
but what can I do?
As now there’s nothing to eat
no maize, no corn
so we’re thinking of working on the plantaciones
I am worried about my daughter Ara
She’s pregnant; she’ll have the baby up there
TC 10 17 36
(Cirilo walking along to camera)
Cirilo, Ara’s husband
-I’m going to tell you something
something very very secret
because I am in love with another women, Susana
and Ara as well
I don’t know what to do
I asked Susana about all this and she said
You have to leave Ara and then we can sort this out
But like this we can’t carry on she said
-And Ara’s father Sebastian, are you afraid of him?
Yes, I am very afraid of him
because if he finds out…
well, he’ll give me a beating
There are many married people with lovers
I know almost everyone has,
It’s not just me
-And what about if Ara was with another man?
-I would have to fight
only through fighting is there a solution
like an Indian
with big sticks!
TC 10 19 01
(Kerechu and Ara on the river)
We are all going to have to work the tea plantations
TC 10 19 08
Kerechu Ara
With only a moon left, you’ll have it up there
-Yes, just a moon left
-It seems like it’ll be a boy, what do you think?
-It’ll be a boy, I’m sure it’ll be a boy.
TC 10 19 48
(Marcelo and bees honey)
Fooking Hell! There they are!
TC 10 20 22
(Marcelo to camera)
Marcelo
I wanted to ask you what happened in…
…in the United State,
Why was it organised? Who did it…?
25 mins
Who?
Their own people from their own country, what?
How do you say the name?
-Bin Laden
-Bin Laden
I heard things on the radio
some I understand, some I didn’t
what’s happening is very complicated
there were many dead, so sad
I saw the images
I thought it was an accident,
but it was planned after all
so many dead, six thousand people dead
all in one day, all of them gone.
A quick death!
They all died so fast
TC 10 22 50
(Cirilo drinking by car)
Cirilo
TC 10 22 55
My woman left me because she doesn’t love me.
And now I am here with meat and flower
She is going to be happy with me and will forgive me
But if she wont accept me back I wont beg!
TC 10 23 24
(Kerechu and Ara in hut)
-When you and papa met, how old were you?
-He had 18 years and I had 18 also
-Mum, how can you be with one man for so long?
-You have to try to do as we did
You must try to have children from the same father
You must try to live the good way
Always believe that your children are most important
and you must believe that you must not separate
and if you are left alone,
don’t feel like you must be with another man
as stepfathers are wicked with children
they won’t love them
not like their own
-But when there are problems what do you do?
-You must talk about it
Try not to be angry for too long
You must speak properly with each other
Of course lovers don’t have to be like this
TC 10 24 50
(Cirilo pissing)
I am not randy
and I’m not violent toward women,
I am a gentleman.
there’s never only one woman
There are many women
I am very drunk now
but we’re going to get there.
TC 10 25 12
(Cirilo arrives drunk)
-Look at the state of him…
Leave him to sober up
Just leave him there or he’ll scare the little ones
TC 10 25 52
(fade out part 2 end)
TC 10 27 00
(Fade in part 3 beginning)
TC 10 27 10
(VO over spider night)
The things we have learnt
but what good are these things
if one can’t feed your family
Everything comes at a price,
the forest feeds us less
and with money comes storms in the night
TC 10 28 25
Marcelo’s house
We the Argentinians, and a few foreigners that live here
are been abuse
The politicians despise us
They make money for themselves
and they protect the bankers
who they blame for the crisis
TC 10 28 56
Local Store
5km from communities
The discontent of Argentinians
at the grave economic situation
has led to violence across the country
I am going to buy something to take to the school
TC 10 29 10
Nelida
Community School Teacher
I have to take them food when I can
anything I can bring
as if there’s not food the children don’t go to school
so I have to try to find something for them
7 years I have been working with the communities
and the indiginous brothers
I believe that the Mbya are going to disappear
they’ll be destroyed…
as a result of globalisation
When I arrive at the school it’s terrible to see
they have nothing to eat
What little I find I bring with me but there are days
when the little ones just don’t eat anything
and if there ‘s none at school then even less attend
TC 10 30 33
Chief Agustin
-The kids without food can’t funtion…
They need the food to get energy for talking
for their brains, to be stronger
If they don’t eat properly, they can’t do anything
-It’s easier for you to get something than for me
-I don’t think so, the whites always get richer…
the indigenous get poorer
They’ve stolen everything, now there’s nothing left
The politicians have got it all
and for the workers, they earn nothing
-No…if we wait for the govermment
we all die of hunger!
-I’m going to ask for a little more!
TC 10 31 44
(Sebastian and family night in bed)
Sebastian
Lets sleep as tomorrow we go to the plantations
The truck is coming early in the morning
It’s going to be tough but we have to go
We’ve got to earn money to eat
-Ara will have her baby there
-Lets hope it’s in hospital
TC 10 32 20
(on truck VO of driver)
Most of this poor Indians going to the plantations
they ‘ll get screwed
They won’t pay them what they should
Often the plantation workers will earn nothing
and they might’ve brought their whole family
and none of them get paid anything
many are going to suffer hunger
that’s the way of the tea plantations
TC 10 33 08
Mulca Plantations
400 km North of the communities
I’m not going to leave a crumb
TC 10 33 40
(Cirilo and Ara talk)
-It’s going to be a girl
-It’s going to be a boy
TC 10 34 50
(All Mbya together waiting on ground for wages)
We’re all here, as we haven’t got our wages
The Patron has treated us all badly
If he is a Christian, if he believes in God…
he will pay
We’ve been waiting for half an hour now
and we have to wait half an hour more
for sure he went to look for the money
Let’s wait for him to come
TC 10 35 25
(Sebastain goes to see baby)
-Look at him, a little man!
A little man
-Can I hold him?
-No, you might drop him.
TC 10 36 12
(Mbya on ground waiting wages)
-It’s all written down in our books
Does someone have a book here?
-Don’t worry we know what he owes us
-Ahhh…very good!
-Yes…I think we are going to get paid
-We gave them a job but they don’t work
If you’re from the white race
You have to teach them how to work
-They have ruined the whole plantation
And?
-But you haven’t paid them
-Why should I pay if they haven’t done their work?
We pay when the work is done
or we tell them which day they’ll get paid
-But their situation is difficult
they don’t have water suplies, nothing
They work very hard
-Where have they worked hard?
-At your plantations
-Are you crazy?
-They’ve been there for just a few days
They haven’t work at all
-But the situation there is…
TC 10 37 23 19
(night Seb and family talk)
-The boss says he’ll pay Juan next Saturday
but we have already decided to leave
-He has to pay us how can he not!
It’s heavy work; I can hardly lift the sacks anymore
and I going home without any money.
TC 10 37 57
(Seb and puma on back with children)
2 days later, back in the communities
-Look what we’ve brought for you!
-What is it?
-A lion
-It’s a good one, nice and fat
I tell you, instead of going to the plantations
You, the young ones can go
but they’ll never pay you anything
But for me, I’ll work in the fields
I’ll plant maize, hunt and fish in the forest
That’s how I like to live
-Sure, but we need the rights to the land
We need the papers so no one can harass us
TC 10 39 09
(go to meet the mayor in rain)
Local Mayor’s Office
-You’ve a meeting with the University?
-Yes, to negotiate the rights to the land
-For the land you’re already living on?
So the land belongs to the University?
-No, the land belongs to us!
The University has the deeds
But the land belongs to us!
TC 10 39 43
Juan Prete
Local Mayor
-Perhaps I’m not very kind
but my idea of our Indians
is that they are lazy
They don’t want to work, or work very little
They don’t know how to work the land
They don’t make an effort to progress
They don’t worry about their families
Perhaps it’s because of their origins
that they’ve never had to do any proper work
because the land, the rivers and the forest
gave them all they needed, fishing and hunting
and could live without working
they believe that we’re obliged
as the authority
to help them economically
whether that be with medicine or tickets
-We, as the municipality and office of the Mayor
want to support the aboriginal community
in addressing the issue of Land rights
this is a return ticket
and we wish you success and luck
TC 10 41 05
(fade out part 3 end)
TC 10 43 00
(fade up part 4 beginning)
VO: How does a man determine what is he
And what is anothers?
Do we own the earth we walk,
or the person we lie with at night?
Its the city that holds our future
TC 10 43 36
(Marcelo on bus to camera)
We’re travelling to an important meeting,
with important people, to talk about our land
it’s an importante thing for us
-I’m feeling good about this trip,
I’m relaxed and full of hopes of getting something,
It’s the first time I’ve left the community to a city
but I hope we get some land…
It’s all very different
TC 10 44 24
Province of Buenos Aires
1000 km south of the communities
I feel like a country boy!
TC 10 44 28
College of the Heart of Christ
Lovely, now you are in room number 3
-Ok, lovely, I hope you find all that you need
-Perhaps you could show them the bathrooms
-Come with me, I’ll take you there…
-Lovely
TC 10 45 22
(Marcelo and other in BS lost)
-We are in the centre of Buenos Aires and lost
Where do we go?
Agustin?
-I’ve no idea
-It’s lovely the capital, what do you think Agustin?
-I think it’s lovely, a little big but lovely
-The problem with Buenos Aires is
there’s no forest to take the shit in
-Look at this!
It’s working eating ice cream
-Go now, go on go
-Here they have Brazilians, Argentinieans,
Japanese,
everyone
even Guarani!
I’m bursting!
Just a litle bit of forest to have a pee!
TC 10 46 39
Ricardo Altabe
Land Rights Lawyer
-You are not going to ask a favour
you are going as political chiefs
My idea is that you are all chiefs
Chiefs of the Mbya Guarani people
You have the authority of your communities
The authority of the Mbya Guarani people
If tomorrow you all get confused
and you forget that this land is yours
Not just on paper but actually yours
then we’re sunk
-I feel little hope
The city makes me depressed
It’s like a football pitch
when Argentina plays Bolivia in Bolivia
The Bolivian team play like they’re on fire
When they come here to Argentina
they don’t play so well
and it’s the same here
I feel depressed, with little hope, this is how I feel
-Tomorrow is a meeting of the heads of state
He represents the state of the University
You represent the state of the Mbya Guarani
You are political chiefs of your communities
You of your people, and he of the university
This is a meeting of chiefs
TC 10 48 26
SUBVERSIVE ABORIGINALS
TC 10 48 32
-So we’ve decided who’ll speak first?
Agustin
-I am Chief Agustin Gonazales
Achief from the Guarani people
I am here to tell you the needs of the Guarani people
The needs of the Indigenous people of Misiones
TC 10 49 13
The next morning
-We’re here reading todays newspapers
Historical recognition of Aboriginal communities
The University pledges land to the Guarani,
it’s original owners
TC 10 49 50
The Communities, 2 days later
-This was the first time they’ve interviewed us
the first time!
We have never had such a meeting before
and we have never raised our worries
outside of our own homes.
-You can return without worry to your homes
and have no doubts,
we are not going to deceive your people
Tell them this
The University of La Plata
from today’s meeting
are going to start
as quickly as possible
We’ll give you the papers
That gives the land rights to the Guarani people.
TC 10 50 57
(fade to white)
VO:
Sometimes it’s simpler to believe for just a moment
But the footprints of a dance disappearWith the first rain
Time passes
and the questions stay the same
But what will happen when we forget to question?
TC 10 51 40
(Seb and Kerechu by river)
-Well…
We have to start to work the land again
The young ones will go off to the plantations again
We’ll stay
The little ones will also stay with us
it doesn’t bother me to stay here
We are together
We are together and getting older
We have to be together forever
until death parts us
-Never to separate
How’s raining now!
-Yes, it’s raining
TC 10 52 40 - TEXT OVER SCREEN
Sebastian & Kerechu have not returned
To the plantations
They are together, living in Mountain Flower
With their 26 grandchildren
Ara and Cirilo are still together
They are expecting another child
Claudio the missionary has returned
to Buenos Aires
He has become an accountant
Chief Agustin and Chief Juan have both
Been replaced as chiefs of their communities
Marcelo has left the communities
He now lives with his family in Brazil
The communities have still received
No official recognition for the rights to their land
Fade to Black