The border between Paraguay and Brazil has become a green desert. This is the birthplace of the Soya Republic, the cradle of the global agribusiness. The horizon is an endless crop line, uniting past and present. Focusing on the assassination of more than 1500 environmentalists and land defenders in Latin America since 2012, Green is the New Red looks for the roots of this violence by analysing Operation Condor. This “multinational of repression” in the 70s meant impunity and land grabbing, laying the foundations for today’s Soya Republic.
Press
“Recalde Miranda is also brave enough to never sugar-coat the truth”- Cineuropa
“Green Is the New Red balances its educational side with personal storytelling to hint at how humans are both the biggest asset and the most fragile element of any resistance movement.”- Cineuropa
Festivals
IDFA International Competition, 2024, World premiere
Biografie van de regisseur
Anna Recalde Miranda is an Italian-Paraguayan director. A graduate of the University of Bologna, Italy, in Media Sociology, she has produced and directed four feature-length documentaries that have taken part in numerous festivals in France and abroad, winning numerous awards. Green is the new red is the third part of a trilogy of documentaries on history in the making.