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Brazil·Democracy·Climate

Brazilian film imagines Bolsonaro coup success and Amazon handed to the US

Monday, 11 May 2026, 06:16 · 1 min read

A new Brazilian short film, Vitória Régia (Amazon Water Lily), depicts a fictional 2025 in which a successful far-right coup hands control of the Amazon rainforest to the United States, with a replica Statue of Liberty erected in the jungle and Indigenous leaders disappeared under military rule. The 21-minute film, directed by Denis Kamioka and starring award-winning actor Alice Braga as a journalist barred from entering the occupied rainforest, was made with the collaboration of two Indigenous networks and draws on the real-life failed coup attempt by supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro following his 2022 election defeat. Its creators say the project has grown increasingly urgent as Bolsonaro's son Flávio prepares to challenge leftist incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for the presidency, with activists warning that another Bolsonaro government could revive the rampant deforestation and incursions into Indigenous lands that marked the elder Bolsonaro's 2019–23 administration.

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The Guardian‘Amazon of America’: film paints vision of a post-coup Brazil giving up rainforest ↗︎
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