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- Hamilton Morris heads to the heart of the Brazilian Amazon to investigate a traditional drug extracted from the screen secretions of a jungle frog.
- Large boats navigate the Amazon River daily, transporting people, animals and goods. This film portrays one of these trips.
- On the triple frontier between Brazil, Colombia and Peru, the twin towns of Letícia and Tabatinga form an urban island surrounded by the Amazon rain-forest. Following the ordinary events and the constant come and go of people along the border, Terras portrays the presence and the influence of the frontier on the lives of its inhabitants.
- A trip through the Amazon to rediscover the magnetism of soccer. Establishing a link between the emotions of childhood, the geography of the school, the line of the equator and the insurmountable Amazon River, this trip tries to rediscover what soccer owns, delivers, requests, magnetizes and falls in love with. In a three-week journey, the attempt to reach the half of the world court, located in the Macapá region in Brazil and built under the philosophical principle of union, of the equality of men before the same sentiment: the passion for football, leads us to meet different inhabitants of the Amazon river who find their greatest and closest feeling in this sport. In turn, Under the round sky of the world, it shows that the feeling of a child in front of a ball is the same in Colombia, in Ghana, Canada or Brazil, resigning football as the most important sport in all of human history , able to cross our ethnic, religious, economic, social differences, etc.
- Bruce Parry joins the Matis, an Amazonian tribe wrongly nicknamed the jaguar people, in the 1980s nearly extinguished by exposure to Western germs, still quite a problem, and much of the shamans' herbal medicine was lost with them. Even bringing the imposed gift stipulated by Brazil's Indian agency PENA, the chief would refuse filming, till he is convinced the BBC is not here to exploit them as a primitive spectacle like earlier crews (even asked to pretend they still went naked) but to show their real life and transition with many modern introductions, such as soccer. Bruce shares his host Tumi's home with various vermin and partakes in social life, which happens largely in the long-house, including meals and rituals such as dripping a gruesome root-juice in their eyes and his as preparation for an exhausting hunt, notably for peccary after a dance imitating that boar's sounds and capture, covered in mud which is washed off. Blowpipes even shoot monkeys from high trees, some babies are adopted as pets. Evening entertainment includes story-telling and nature-imitating dances, salsa learned by young men in town -they prefer their own lifestyle still- has its village premiere in Bruce's presence. Fresh-cut switches, flexible enough to whip around the belly, are used on the bare back to give hunters courage, and by foliage-dressed 'forest spirits' on pregnant women and otherwise never chastised children to stimulate growth and cure laziness. Frog poison is administered trough small wounds as a vomiting-inducing ritual hunter's ordeal. Domestic fun includes body painting, which has lost any symbolical meaning. After his greatest hunt and the meal, Bruce gets a warm send-off.