• " A beautiful anti-epic, Brave New Land is an obligatory film."

José Geraldo Couto, Folha de São Paulo, Brazil

• " Brave New Land, by Lúcia Murat, can be considered the best Brazilian surprise of this (International São Paulo Cinema) Festival. With a tender, feminine, patient way of filming indigenous life, Lúcia indeed evokes a still virgin, innocent and yet wild and violent Brazil."

Luiz Zanin Oricchio, O Estado de São Paulo, Brazil

• " Lucia Murat courageously opted to identify the viewer's point of view as the colonizer's, limiting any possibility of idealization to the extreme. After all, as it's very well registered in the final sequence, pain does not distinguish color, race nor creed."

Ricardo Cota, Jornal do Brasil

• "Lucia Murat is not one to shy away from using controversial issues to propel her films. Her testimonial "How nice to see you alive" was an eye-opener on the subject of Brasil's human rights abuses during the military rule of the sixties. Then came "Sweet Power", an exposé of the media's role in swaying election results. Now, on the 500th anniversary of the "discovery"of Brasil, Murat's bring us "Brave New land", a compelling chronicle of history observed from the point of view of a conquered people. With Brave New Land, Lucia Murat challenges our pre-conceived notions of history. Her highly developed journalistic method and keen eye for historical drama make this a truly tense and daring film"

Ramiro Puerta, Toronto International Film Festival, Canada

• "Brave New Land deploys fresh cinematic strategies to reimagine Brazil’s colonial past. Murat shuffles the deck – of language, of culture, of race – and deals a new hand, one that forces us to give up our cherished fantasies and confront a history of misunderstandings, violence and revenge. Bravo for a brave new film."

B. Ruby Rich, San Francisco Bay Guardian, USA

"Brave New Land is a harrowing look at the colonization process from the viewpoint of the indigenous peoples who were subjected to its most violent excesses. A moving, brilliantly executed tragedy worthy of being ranked alongside Aguirre, The Wrath of God."

Tom Lyons, Eye Weekly, Toronto, Canada