Three ghosts walk into a documentary and rewrite your bloodline.
Three men from the past cross into the present to reveal the invisible marks of Brazilian history. Between memory, fantasy, and poetry, The Secret Life of My Three Men proposes a reckoning with the violence that shaped us and the possibility of another future.
Cinematography
Photographs breathe, ghosts develop in real time.
Direction
Simões collapses 100 years into one aching frame.
Writing
Poetry that punches you in the family tree.
Director
Letícia Simões
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The cangaço references invoke Lampião's severed head photographed by police—a colonial trophy Simões reclaims.
Simões developed the 'three men' through workshops with queer youth in Recife, making the past literally collaborative.
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