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Tag: Petra Costa

One filmmaker and her two very different sisters

 

Victor Fraga - 20-10-2024

The editor of DMovies - a Brazilian filmmaker himself - examines the two most important films of Brazil's top documentarist Petra Costa, revealing a peculiar filmic sorority, and a singular autobiographic signature [Read More...]

Apocalypse in the Tropics

Petra Costa
2024

Victor Fraga - 28-09-2024

US-born evangelical movement threatens to destroy Brazilian democracy, in Petra Costa's new political doc - from the 72nd San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

The Edge of Democracy (Democracia em Vertigem)

Petra Costa
2019

Victor Fraga - 09-06-2019

Highly personal Brazilian doc about the recent collapse of democratic institutions in the Latin American nation is a sobering and painful reminder that the individual and the political establishment are inextricable - on Netflix [Read More...]