Tim Blake Nelson and Gretchen Mol star in this environmental thriller as American investors building an illegal dam in the Amazon. Thomas (Nelson) must travel to Brazil to help persuade an indigenous agency bureaucrat overseeing the project. But when a young indigenous girl is kidnapped and forced into prostitution, entangling Thomas in a tug-of-war with the indigenous population the dam would displace.
In Sabrina McCormick and Soopum Sohn's Sequestrada, corporate progress is hoping to absorb the Arara people into Brazilian society with promises of housing, schools, and hospitals with all the Western conveniences. The film calls these bureaucrats, waving the banners of a good life, a simple word…"liars." Sequestrada is a beautiful film showing off the elegance of the Amazon river and the simplicity of the indigenous villages.