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2025 · Documentary
When the search for its origin takes him to the deep pampa, the documentary director discovers a recently recognized biome, little known and that presents more than half of its native area destroyed. So, its goal becomes to present the biome and its inhabitants, in a mosaic between the original peoples, quilombola communities, family cattle ranchers, agrarian reform settlers and rural entrepreneurs, awakening an awareness of belonging, with the objective of strengthening the preservation of the Pampa biome.
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