Cissa (The flower)

A documentary project by Jacques Dochamps and Alain Marcoen 

ImageSynopsis: At the heart of the Amazon rainforest, on the edge of the Andes, lives a native people who have been fighting the mining projects of the large multinationals for fifteen years.

In 2004, having managed to peacefully remove over 600 workers and 400 soldiers from their land, the people met with their oldest shaman. He spoke about one of the oldest healing songs, passed down since the beginnings of time via his spiritual masters. The song evokes “a living path of flowers.” The shaman then told them that the time had come to create this path in the forest and that it was their only way of resisting future attacks by the multinationals.

The people were unsure about their ability to achieve an apparently impossible undertaking: they had to plant and maintain a “frontier of trees with coloured flowers” (three circles of trees with a diameter of 50m every 6km) over an area which was more than 300km long in the midst of the virgin forest!
 
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