Documentary

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Iracema – Uma Transa Amazónica

Film review, From the archive  

Jorge Bodanzky and Orlando Senna’s once-banned film is an unusual proposition: half social drama, half documentary. The journey of an indigenous, teenage sex worker along the developing Trans-Amazónica Highway is a window into the extractive misery forced on Amazonian communities by the military regime.

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Retratos Fantasmas / Pictures of Ghosts

Film review, From the archive  

Made during the Covid-19 pandemic, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s unusual documentary traces Recife’s cinematic past and what remains. In digging into its history, the director would write his near future, developing the ideas and motifs that would coalesce into his political thriller The Secret Agent.