Seven Years in May
One fine evening in May, Rafaël dos Santos was beaten up by corrupt cops who came to blackmail him. Rafael had to flee Belo Horizonte. Then begins a descent into the underworld of drugs, gangsterism and police repression.
| Director | Affonso Uchôa |
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Seven Years in May is part of a recurring process in director Affonso Uchoa's cinema, as many of his works denounce the structure of mass incarceration as part of the notion of systemic racism. Originally from a peripheral municipality in the Brazilian region of Minas Gerais, the filmmaker paints a minimalist yet audacious portrait of his surroundings, focusing on a youth deprived of great perspectives. This is the case of Rafael, protagonist and co-writer of the film, who suddenly disappeared from the neighborhood. Nearly seven years later, he tells us head-on about the night he was tortured by police officers, and then harassed until he was forced to leave his region. Oscillating between direct testimony, reenactment and fiction, the film highlights the deep scars that police violence has left in the life of this young man, whose story is unfortunately far from unique.
RIDM Programming Collective
Presented in collaboration with
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Français
42 mn
Language: Français
Subtitles: Français -
English
42 mn
Language: English
Subtitles: English
- Année 2019
- Pays Brazil, Argentina
- Durée 42
- Producteur Vasto Mundo
- Langue Portuguese
- Sous-titres French, English
- Résumé court Rafael dos Santos, beaten by the police, bears witness to the traces that violence leaves in individual and collective memory.
- Mention festival Sélection - RIDM 2019
- Programmateur Le collectif de programmation des RIDM|aucune;
- Ordre 1
Seven Years in May is part of a recurring process in director Affonso Uchoa's cinema, as many of his works denounce the structure of mass incarceration as part of the notion of systemic racism. Originally from a peripheral municipality in the Brazilian region of Minas Gerais, the filmmaker paints a minimalist yet audacious portrait of his surroundings, focusing on a youth deprived of great perspectives. This is the case of Rafael, protagonist and co-writer of the film, who suddenly disappeared from the neighborhood. Nearly seven years later, he tells us head-on about the night he was tortured by police officers, and then harassed until he was forced to leave his region. Oscillating between direct testimony, reenactment and fiction, the film highlights the deep scars that police violence has left in the life of this young man, whose story is unfortunately far from unique.
RIDM Programming Collective
Presented in collaboration with
-
Français
Duration: 42 minutesLanguage: Français
Subtitles: Français42 mn -
English
Duration: 42 minutesLanguage: English
Subtitles: English42 mn
- Année 2019
- Pays Brazil, Argentina
- Durée 42
- Producteur Vasto Mundo
- Langue Portuguese
- Sous-titres French, English
- Résumé court Rafael dos Santos, beaten by the police, bears witness to the traces that violence leaves in individual and collective memory.
- Mention festival Sélection - RIDM 2019
- Programmateur Le collectif de programmation des RIDM|aucune;
- Ordre 1
