“Apocalypse in the Tropics”, interview with the director Pedra Costa and producer Alessandra Orofino

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“Apocalypse in the Tropics ” is a documentary by Petra Costa, presented Out of Competition at he 81st Venice International film Festival. The film is an analytical account of the rise of right-wing power in Brazil, with Bolsonaro and the fundamentalist church, and the reflection of this trend in the world, using Brazilian events as a universal mirror.

The double meaning of the term ‘apocalypse’

Petra Costa, with the title “Apocalypse in the Tropics “, wanted to present the double meaning of the term: on the one hand, disaster and the end of everything, but on the other hand, according to the meaning in Greek, which is ‘revelation’, to remove the veil and discover what lies beneath. So: how did we get into this situation and what should we do to get out of it.

Faith is the key to everything, not just religion

Petra Costa and Alessandra Orofino explain how at the basis of the film is the realisation that faith moves everything, even the decline of democracy. When we lose faith in democracy, new forces arise: you need to trust something and the strongest person imposes himself.

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