Espero tua (Re)volta 2019

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.

Cast:

Nayara Souza
Narrator 

Lucas Penteado
Narrator 

Marcela Jesus
Narrator 

Jair Bolsonaro
Himself (archive footage) 

Geraldo Alckmin
Himself (archive footage) 

Fernando Haddad
Himself (archive footage) 

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