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.
Lower City’s toxic love triangle peers into the murky world of three young adults, muddling their way through life on the underside of Salvador, Bahia, who are wildly in love with each other; increasingly willing to betray each other; and completely unable to walk away from each other.
Daniel Bandeira’s unusual hostage thriller asks necessary and uncomfortable questions about class, labour and inequality in Brazil, exploring what he calls ‘the fear machine’ of heightening, mutual societal mistrust and polarisation.
Lázaro Ramos’ 2020 dystopian speculative thriller unpacks the racist past and present with a nightmare scenario in which Brazil tries to excise its Black population with a mass deportation order.
