Tropical Alien spoke with André Antônio about “Salomé”, winner of eight awards at the 2024 Brasília Film Festival. In the interview, the director explores his investigation of desire through an aesthetic that blends realistic relationships with extreme visual artificiality, using neon colors and references to American film noir.
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In his adaptation of Ana Paula Maia’s first book from her trilogy, Marco Dutra creates Brazilian cosmic horror with Selton Mello. The film navigates between the Lovecraftian and the human, building terror from the silent inevitability of everyday apocalypse.
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In Tropical Alien’s third interview, directors Clarissa Campolina and Sérgio Borges reveal how “Suçuarana” was born from reading Henry James in 2012, going through 12 years of development to become a road movie about Dora’s search for lost land.
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In the first Tropical Takes video, Bruno Weber analyzes Gabriel Mascaro’s “The Blue Trail”. Brazilian dystopia where government sends elderly to distant colonies. Starring Denise Weinberg, film won Silver Bear in Berlin
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In her new Netflix documentary, Petra Costa presents an essential analysis of how evangelical lobbies shaped Brazil’s far-right. “Apocalypse in the Tropics” reveals pastor Silas Malafaia as the architect of Bolsonaro’s messianic image and exposes the political-religious agenda that led to the January 8th attacks.
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In Tropical Alien’s second interview, we spoke with director Guto Parente about his feature film “A Strange Path” (2024), a deeply personal film about the relationship between father and son, written during the pandemic as a way to reconnect with shared cinematic memories.
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Mariana Brennand approaches child abuse in Amazonian communities with notable cinematic sensitivity, choosing an ethical visual language that communicates without exploiting. With Jamilli Correa’s revelatory performance and Rômulo Braga’s complex work, the film discusses an urgent reality of Brazilian society through fiction.
Milena Times gently tells the story of a young woman full of plans who has to deal with an unwanted pregnancy, taking time also to reflect on the presence of the characters who form her support network at this unexpected time.
NOT TOMORROW YET | 2024 Read More »
In Tropical Alien’s first interview, directors Rafaela Camelo and Emanuel Lavor delve into the creation and production of the short film “The Beads”.
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Jorge Furtado’s must-see feature film entertains by discussing the movie-making process, at the same time as it is a catalog of charismatic characters played by great actors. The film is being re-released by the Sessão Vitrine Petrobrás project.
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