Brazil's most explosive street theater reenacts slavery's escape—still fighting 300 years later.
Lambe sujos X Caboclinhos is a documentary that addresses the characteristics, contradictions and conflicts of the folk manifestation Lambe sujos x Caboclinhos, an open-air street theater in which the battle is staged between negroes fled from the senzala and Indians who were hired by the lord of ingenuity to capture them and bring them back to the slavery.
Direction
Captures chaos of street theater without sanitizing it.
Production
Access to communities rarely filmed this intimately.
Sound
Percussion that makes your chest vibrate with ancestral weight.
Director
Coprodução Bipolar Filmes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lambe-sujos literally means 'dirt-lickers'—the slur slavers used for escaped Africans who ate dirt to survive in hiding.
Sergipe's festival is one of Brazil's oldest continuous Black resistance performances, predating official abolition by decades.
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Bomdia povo Laranjeirense, estou a 28 anos distante dessa minha terra más que saudade . Cultura é assim nunca pode morrer.Sou filho de Gérson e Elvira de Pedra Branca . Amo muito minha terra com muito orgulho é carinho bjs a todos.
@joseosvaldosilvadossantoss4939 5
Lindo, lindo. Sou Laranjeirense, Mussuquence e Nordestina. Uma coisa q só minha Cidade tem, é um ORGULHO.
@marialeda9172 3
Documentário lindo demais. Que cultura linda do meu estado. 2021 com certeza estarei lá
@jotinhave 2
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