Henrique Landulfo

The documentary closely follows the turbulent months of the electoral period that culminated in the invasion of the National Congress, the Planalto Palace and the STF on January 8, 2023.

“De Dora por Sara” shares excerpts from writings, letters from prison and letters from exile exchanged between guerrilla Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos and Clélia Lara Barcelos, recreating what she called “Dora Dam”, a communication field between confinement and the possibility of utopia. This research combines “real” words in a poetic time, feeling both the processes that led her body to suicide and the other way around: it investigates a vibrating field for her to relive, in a kind of “incarnate” cartography, averse to giving up.

The film follows the creation of the play "As Comadres" in post 2018 Brazil (after Bolsonaro's election), supervised by Ariane Mnouchkine, founder of Théâtre du Soleil in France. 20 women from different backgrounds come together, to bring to life this musical about the female universe. Beyond the theatrical questions, the film throws light on the women's desire and constant efforts to escape the dominant mechanisms of our society (including racism, for instance) and reformulate the paradigms of collective work.

Who are the vaccine volunteers? What motivated them? Were they not afraid? For 9 months they opened their lives to us, recording such a difficult period in our history.