Last Treasures of the Earth

A journey to the last indigenous people on earth - visually stunning, touching and thoughtful. They live on the edges of the world we know - far from civilization, yet affected by its consequences. Before these last indigenous ways of life have to give way to constant globalization, photographer Markus Mauthe traveled to them with the aim of making the beauty of their cultures visible to us. The journey leads from South Sudan and Ethiopia to the sea nomads in Malaysia and the Indios in the Brazilian Mato Grosso, who have begun to defend themselves against the destruction of their habitat. Markus Mauthe has been celebrating great success for years, not only with his pictures, but also with his travel lectures. Now he has been accompanied by a film team for the first time and granted an insight into his work. The result is a film with close, unadulterated encounters in beguilingly beautiful pictures - and an appeal for the preservation of the indigenous environments, which are doomed without our resolute rethinking and acting. (Filmtank)