16 minutes of pure dread. A man waits to die, and you can't look away.
In order to escape repression in his country, Latin American political militant takes refuge in the coast of Paraná, where he lives in the constant expectation of being discovered and eliminated.
Direction
Severo stretches 16 minutes into eternity through negative space.
Cinematography
Paraná coast becomes character: beautiful, indifferent, deadly.
Acting
Siqueira's face holds entire political histories in silence.
Director
Fernando Severo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Brazil's democratic transition, when filmmakers finally could address dictatorship wounds—but audiences weren't ready to look.
Severo shot this in his actual hometown; locals didn't know they were in a political film, thought it was a tourism video.
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