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Movie poster: Isle of Flowers (1989)
🎬 Movie

Isle of Flowers

1989 · 13 min Documentary
8.1 / 10 · TMDB

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.

📋 Film Details

Original Title Ilha das Flores
Year 1989
Country Brazil
Genre Documentary
Director Jorge Furtado
Runtime 13 min.
Rating TMDB: 8.1/10 (225 votes)

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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

A brutal and brilliant documentary short that dissects capitalist logic with surgical precision. In just thirteen minutes, Jorge Furtado crafts a universal parable about inequality, where the chain "soil—supermarket—landfill" becomes a metaphor for human destiny.

What lingers after viewing is a bitter aftertaste and a haunting question: if a tomato and a human end up in the same final place, what truly separates us? The film offers no easy answers but forces a reckoning with the very idea of progress. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Jorge Furtado

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Sarcastic voice-over, sharp editing, the stark contrast of a bright vegetable against a gray landfill.

🎭 Cast

Paulo José

Paulo José

Narrator

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Júlia Barth

Filha de Dona Anete

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Luciane Azevedo

Ana Luiza Nunes

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Ciça Reckziegel

Dona Anete

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Igor Costa

Filho de Dona Anete

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Douglas Trainini

Marido de Dona Anete

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Irene Schmidt

Compradora

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Gosei Kitajima

Sr. Suzuki 1

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Takehiro Suzuki

Sr. Suzuki 2

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Antônio da Silva

O dono do porco

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