Amazomania
Singapore Premiere
Nathan Grossman Sweden, France, Denmark 2026 93 min NC16 (Some Nudity)
A 1996 expedition to the Amazon rainforest to make contact with the Korubo people yields huge professional success for journalist Erling Söderström. He meets the tribe again three decades later, only to be confronted by the impact of his ignorance.
In 1996, journalist Erling Söderström joins an expedition to the Amazon rainforest to initiate contact with the isolated Korubo tribe, amid rising deadly clashes with settlers. The group leaves after amassing dozens of hours of footage and photographs, which Söderström turns into an award-winning film. Swept up in idyllic memories, he revisits the Korubo three decades later, but is met with demands for reparations and the rights to their images which the tribe never consented for use.
Amazomania interrogates the politics of image-making and the ethics of ethnographic filmmaking, revealing the exploitation that occurs in the name of knowledge. Made with editorial input from the Korubo, it offers a revisionist take on the landmark expedition.
Synopsis Writer: Sasha Han
Standpoint, Q&A
24 Oct, Sat 2:00PM / 93 min
Oldham Theatre
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Amazomania
Nathan Grossman
Sweden, France, Denmark
2026
Portuguese, Korubo, Swedish, English, French
English
93 min
NC16 (Some Nudity)
Singapore Premiere
Nathan Grossman
Nathan Grossman is a Swedish filmmaker and photographer best known for his documentaries on the environmental crisis. After his viral short film, The Toaster Challenge (2015), he made I Am Greta (2020), his first feature-length documentary which premiered at Venice and Toronto. Amazomania, his second feature, premiered at CPH:DOX where it won the FIPRESCI Award.
Cecilia Nessen