When numerous schools in São Paulo were slated to be closed in 2015 as a result of the worsening socio-political crisis, students occupied more than a thousand public buildings in an unprecedented act of self-empowerment. Filmmaker Eliza Capai shows the development of the many-voiced protests, using news excerpts, self-conducted interviews and recordings made with activists’ own cell phone cameras. From the first demonstrations in 2013 and continuing all the way to the election of the extreme right-wing presidential Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, Capai’s highly political work becomes more and more relevant with each passing day.
Eliza Capai
Director, Writer
Nayara Souza
Narrator
Lucas Penteado
Narrator
Marcela Jesus
Narrator
Jair Bolsonaro
Himself (archive footage)
Geraldo Alckmin
Himself (archive footage)
Fernando Haddad
Himself (archive footage)
Guilherme Boulos
Himself (archive footage)
Dilma Rousseff
Himself (archive footage)
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