AURORA 15 | 2025
At 70 minutes long, Aurora 15 is a quick and peculiar horror experience with a surprisingly committed cast. Marjorie Estiano stands out with a memorable performance in this cult gem.
At 70 minutes long, Aurora 15 is a quick and peculiar horror experience with a surprisingly committed cast. Marjorie Estiano stands out with a memorable performance in this cult gem.
Maurílio Martins discusses “O Último Episódio”, a film set in 1991 on the outskirts of Contagem born from personal memories of Laguna neighborhood. The director talks about narrative layers, adult conflicts and the attempt to capture the impossible moment of childhood farewell.
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Ana Petta documents the threat to a small village in São Paulo through the perspective of her children Maria and Pedro. With an intimate gaze, Amora defends ways of life based on calm and harmony, creating a counterpoint between real estate speculation and the dispossession of external environments and inner worlds amid urban verticalization.
Gustavo Castro follows the Latiff family, made up of Palestinians and Brazilians, to create a pluralized portrait of the Palestinian people. The documentary builds an informative timeline of the conflicts with Israel and reaches a relevant conclusion about how the most video-recorded genocide in history can be questioned amid the ocean of information on social media.
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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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