Isle of Flowers

A place where there are very few flowers.

APPROPIATE

1989 / 13min.

Rating8.116

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.

Directors

Jorge Furtado

Actors

Júlia Barth

Paulo José

Takehiro Suzuki

Marcos Crespo

Igor Costa

Ciça Reckziegel

Gosei Kitajima

Douglas Trainini

Luciane Azevedo

Irene Schmidt

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