Yanuni

Blends political thrills with meditative visual poetry.

The result is an inspiring portrait of two undeniably remarkable environmental advocates.

[The] enforcement missions play like something out of a war movie. The reality is that the fight in the Amazon is a war of its own kind and Yanuni shares a view from the front lines.

Ladkani tries to tell a multi-faceted story around different issues through varied perspectives with mixed results, although the underlying topics themselves remain urgent and compelling.