Movie Details
Original Language:English
Forest Law
38 min
Plot
Forest Law is a video essay that draws from research carried out in the oilandmining frontier in the Ecuadorian Amazon one of the most biodiverse and mineralrich regions on Earth currently under pressure from the dramatic expansion of largescale extraction activities At the heart of Forest Law is a series of landmark legal cases that bring the forest to court and plead for the rights of nature One particularly paradigmatic trial that has recently been won by the indigenous people of Sarayuku based on their cosmology of the living forest
