Isle of Flowers

Isle of Flowers (1989)

Ilha das Flores

A place where there are very few 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.

Date of release
1989-09-06
TMDB
8.2 / 10 (244)
Runtime
13m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Jorge Furtado

Casting

Interesting facts

Isle of Flowers 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.

Production

The scene of the perfume factory was actually shot in a high school laboratory (Colégio Anchieta).

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