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The Mole Agent
Why this pick
Like Petra Costa’s film, it turns a close personal perspective into a quietly political portrait of institutions, using intimate observation and a deeply humane emotional arc.
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MOVIE2019 1h 53m BRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
Though less overtly political, it shares Costa’s intimate, subjective documentary sensibility: personal relationships become a lens for power, vulnerability, and moral ambiguity.
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Nocturne
Why this pick
A patient, visually composed study of people living amid political violence, matching The Edge of Democracy’s poetic seriousness and its feeling that national history is lived privately.
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A House Made of Splinters
Why this pick
This observational portrait of children and caregivers near a war zone carries a similarly compassionate political force, finding the human cost of national instability in close, unguarded moments.
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The Territory
Why this pick
Set in Brazil and shaped by an urgent struggle over land and power, it offers the same sense of democracy being contested on the ground, with immersive, politically alert filmmaking.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis -- the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Jair Bolsonaro
Jair Bolsonaro
Michel Temer
Michel Temer
Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Rousseff