Isle of Flowers(Movie, 1989)

Name: Isle of Flowers
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1989
Duration: T00:13:00
Rating: 4

Original title: "Ilha das Flores" (Portuguese/PT)

Rating: 4.0/5 (with 84 votes)

Isle of Flowers (Portuguese: Ilha das Flores) is a 1989 Brazilian short film by Jorge Furtado. It tracks the path of a tomato from grower to the child who collects it as food from a dump with the help of voiceover and a collection of illustrative images. The director stated the film was inspired by the works of Kurt Vonnegut and Alain Resnais, among others. In 1995, Isle of Flowers was chosen by the European critics as one of the 100 most important short films of the century. ()

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About Isle of Flowers

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.

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Trailer for Isle of Flowers + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Ilha das Flores (Isle of Flowers) (1989) 1080p English(Clip, 13:10)

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Additional Information

Production country: Brazil

Made by: Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre

Original language: Portuguese (PT)

Spoken languages: Portuguese (PT)

Translated into 9 languages: Catalan (CA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Turkish (TR)

Status: Released

Release date US: 03/23/1990 (World premiere: 09/06/1989)

Director: Jorge Furtado

Screenwriter: Jorge Furtado, Cecília Meireles

Executive Producer: Gilberto José Pires de Assis Brasil

Film Editor: Gilberto José Pires de Assis Brasil

Composer: Geraldo Flach

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"La isla de las flores"

"Kukkien saari"

"L'ile aux Fleurs"

"Island of Flowers"

"A bevándorlók szigete"

"Остров цветов"

"Blommornas ö"

Keywords: slum, supermarket, short film, misery, garbage dump, pig, poor, tomato, hunger, economic crisis, money, landfill, capitalism, poverty

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Isle of Flowers(Movie, 1989)

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