The film features unpublished testimonials of emblematic figures of Brazilian politics, such as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, former President Jair Bolsonaro and evangelical leader Silas Malafaia
The Brazilian Documentary Apocalypse in the tropics It may be about to make history at Oscar 2026. The production, launched by Netflix, was highlighted by the critic Scott FeinbergExecutive Editor of Awards of the The Hollywood Reporteras a favorite to the indication in the category of best documentary.
The movie PETRA COSTA (Elena) Figure next to 2000 dusks to andriivka (PBS), The perfect neighbor (Netflix), Jayne Mansfield, my Mother (HBO) and The Alabama Solution (HBO). If the forecast is made, the mining filmmaker would repeat the feat of 2020, when he competed with Democracy in Vertigo (2019).
What is it about?
Narrated from the perspective of the filmmaker, the documentary starts from a deep investigation to analyze the growth of evangelical faith in Brazil and its impacts on the political and social context in the last ten years, especially the participation of evangelical leaders in the country’s political decisions.
In Apocalypse in the tropics, PETRA COSTA It investigates the increase in the participation of evangelical leaders in the country’s political decisions. With exclusive access to emblematic figures such as the President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvathe former president Jair Bolsonaroand the famous televangelist Silas Malafaiathe filmmaker investigates the deep role that the evangelical movement played in Brazil’s recent political turbulence.
As in your Oscar® nominee Democracy in Vertigo, Coast It documents a period of great uncertainty with lucidity and poetic look. Interlacing past and present, the film leads us through the contradictions of a young and fragile democracy, and in doing so offers an image that echoes far beyond the borders of Brazil.
Debut at the 81st International Film Festival of Venice and participation in other international film festivals, the documentary has script and direction of PETRA COSTAand production of PETRA COSTA and ALESSANDRA OROFINO. Watch the trailer:
Source: THR
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