| Birdwatchers | |
| Director: | Marco Bechis |
| Producer: | Amedeo Pagani Marco Bechis Fabiano Gullane Caio Gullane |
| Starring: | Claudio Santamaria Alicélia Batista Cabreira Chiara Caselli |
| Music: | Andrea Guerra |
| Cinematography: | Hélico Alemão Nagamine |
| Editing: | Jacopo Quadri |
| Studio: | Classic Rai Cinema Karta Film Gullane Filmes |
| Distributor: | 01 Distribution (Italy) Paris Filmes (Brazil) |
| Runtime: | 104 minutes |
| Country: | Italy Brazil |
| Language: | Portuguese Guarani English |
| Budget: | €3 million[1] |
| Gross: | $7,263[2] |
Birdwatchers (Italian: '''La terra degli uomini rossi''') is a 2008 Brazilian-Italian drama film directed by Marco Bechis and starring Claudio Santamaria, Alicélia Batista Cabreira, and Chiara Caselli. It depicts the breakdown of a community of Guarani-Kaiowa native Indians whilst attempting to reclaim their ancestral land from a local farmer.
A boat with tourists is sailing through the jungle. Suddenly they come face-to-face with Indians, naked apart from their paint, with self-made weapons at the ready. The tourists sail on excitedly. The Indians put on their jeans and collect their wages.
The Guarani, one of Brazil's oldest Indian communities, are forced to live in a reservation. A small group decide to leave and settle in a traditional territory that has belonged to white men for several generations.
The film was shot in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul[1] over ten weeks in 2007 with a cast whose most members had never acted before and without use of a script.
The songs "Sacris solemnis" and "O gloriosa virginum" were composed by the Italian Jesuit Domenico Zipoli who went to South America to live at the Jesuit reductions.