The Critical Room: An adventure with a colonial aftertaste

After the film, director Nathan Grossman will join us online to discuss how Amazomania came about and how he met Erling Söderström, who appears in the film. What were his thoughts about filming the Korubo people again, and what message does he hope audiences will take away after watching the film? 

Grossman will be interviewed by senior advisor from Rainforest Foundation Norway, Lars Løvold and Larissa Avelar from The Norwegian Solidarity Comitee for Latin America (LAG)

The conversation will be held in English.

Panelists

Nathan Grossman – An award-winning Swedish documentary filmmaker. He is best known for his 2020 documentary about Greta Thunberg, Greta, and Climate in Therapy (2025). Amazomania is his latest film.

Larissa Avelar – Brazilian activist with LAG Brasil and former chair of the Latin America Solidarity Committee of Norway (LAG Norway).

Lars Løvold – Special adviser and former director of Rainforest Foundation Norway.

About the film

In 1996, an expedition led by Swedish journalist Erling Söderström ventured into the Amazon to make contact with the isolated and myth-shrouded Korubo people. The grainy VHS footage from the 1990s occasionally calls to mind Werner Herzog’s masterpiece Aguirre, the Wrath of God.