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Alma

May 01, 2011 | IMDB 9

65 min Watch Now

Documentary

Beautifully shot, alternately joyful and horrifying, Alma captures the ecological, and even spiritual, cost of meat, dairy, and leather production in the Amazon.

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Lucile Ferreira, Vanessa Cadasse, Eugénie Zebrowska Selin, Patricia Cazier

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