He talks about his fears for Brazil under the extreme right-wing government of Bolsonaro, especially the abuse of minority groups. His film about the arrest and violent abuse of a young man by the Brazilian police is also an interesting experiment in combining documentary and fiction.
Europe
José Vieira, the hidden pains of being a migrant
Fleeing the Portuguese dictatorship with his family in 1965 shaped his desire to investigate the interior and exterior reality of emigration. He speaks about the shame of being forced to leave your roots for economic and political reasons. When politicians criminalize migrants, while permitting their exploitation, film must speak out. […]
A genocide does not just happen, we allow it to happen
Gregory H. Stanton, president of Genocide Watch, has identified the 8 stages of a genocide: classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, extermination, and denial. These 8 stages are predictable but not inexorable and at each of them, there may be preventive measures in order to stop it.
José, my homeless friend
We feel an enormous emptiness when we lose a friend. An emptiness which fills with anguish, and overflows with anger when we discover in the empty spaces of our lives that the time we should have given to our lost friend has slipped away.
Quino Piñero: a sound pilgrim traveling without hesitation
Growing up exposed to music, he goes far beyond being just a musician but is also a photographer, a sound engineer and a film maker. Purely for the sake of his passion for different types of song that intrigue him, he could be on a trek to a completely foreign land at any moment.
















