“While we are here” mixes fiction, travelogue, film diary and documentary to tell the story Lamis, a Lebanese woman who just moved to New York and Wilson, a Brazilian man living illegally for 10 years in the same city. The film narrates the story of their relationship in a personal way by articulating macro-political issues with intimate ones.
Clarissa Campolina
Director, Writer
Luiz Pretti
Director, Writer
Mary Ghattas
Lamis
Marcelo Souza e Silva
Wilson
Grace Passô
(Narrator)
Gláucia Vandeveld
Mãe de Wilson
Theo Campolina Pretti
Omar
McQueen74%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Directed by John Ford70%
28 Up75%
Sherman's March67%
The Class of ‘9271%
A Plastic Ocean75%
180° South72%
Public Speaking70%
Maternal Instinct72%
Tabloid64%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Heart of a Dog65%
Above Majestic73%
35 Up76%
Elstree 197661%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Black Sheep72%
