A meditative journey through memory and history, Letícia Simões’s hybrid documentary explores the lives of three men who were once in her life, and how their legacies reflect the violence that has occurred throughout Brazil’s past and that shaped its present. Arnaud, Simões’s grandfather, was a vigilante bandit; her father Fernando was an informant for the SNI under the military dictatorship; and Sebastião, her godfather, was a gay Black man whose partner was murdered in a homophobic attack. Using the hundreds of photographs Sebastião left for her, Simões conceives a meeting of the three men’s ghosts in non-linear staging with actors. In a mixture of the archival and the imaginary, the characters recount crucial moments in their lives while the performers interrogate Simões’s own memories. This innovative approach pushes the boundaries of the documentary form and delivers a deeply resonant and moving film that weaves Brazil’s violent past through her personal history. Vicci Ho.
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