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The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Sandra Kogut for a screening of her film No Céu da Pátria Nesse Instante, followed by a Q&A.

Documentary · 105 minutes · 2024

In Portuguese with subtitles

Synopsis

Shot during the turbulent months leading up to the recent Brazilian presidential elections and the
subsequent storming of Congress, the Presidential Palace and the Supreme Court on January 8th, 2023,
the film follows a sequence of key-moments through the eyes of some characters involved in the process.
Located in very different parts of the country the characters share a direct involvement in the electoral
process: they are office workers, poll inspectors, activists, or candidates’ staff. They are not the characters
we usually see under the spotlight during the electoral period; on the contrary, they are often invisible.
And they are also from both sides of the political spectrum. At a time when the far right was in power
and democracy was at risk, the film explores the existence of two parallel worlds unable to see each
other.

About Sandra Kogut

Kogut’s work hovers at the border between documentary and fiction and has been featured at MoMA,
Guggenheim Museum, Harvard Film Archive (retrospective), The Flaherty Retrospective, Forum des
Images (Paris), and many other venues. Her films have won awards at Oberhausen Film Festival, Leipzig
Documentary Film Festival, Vue sur les Docs, Berlinale Generation, Rotterdam Film Festival, Havana,
Malaga, Antalya, Mar del Plata, Rio, and others.
MUTUM (2007) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival (Director’s Fortnight), CAMPO GRANDE (2015)
and TRÊS VERÕES (2019) premiered at the TIFF and went on to numerous festivals winning awards and
getting distributed in numerous countries.

Co-sponsored with the Spanish & Portuguese Program (Modern Languages and Literatures Department).