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UTOPIA DOCS is a Europe and Brazil based international sales agent specialized in worldwide distribution and in international coproduction of feature and tv length documentaries.
CATALOGUE
Threshold · Coraci Ruiz · Brasil · 2020
Threshold" is an autobiographical documentary made by a mother who follows the gender transition of her adolescent son: between 2016 and 2019 she interviews him addressing the conflicts, certainties and uncertainties that pervade him in a deep search for his identity. At the same time, the mother, revealed through a first-person narration and by her voice behind the camera that talks to her son, also goes through a process of transformation required by the situation that life presents her with by breaking old paradigms, facing fears and dismantling prejudices.
Nũhũ yãg mũ yõg hãm: this land is our land! · Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu, Roberto Romero · Brazil · 2020
This land is our land creates an alternative system of audiovisual cartography to give shape – both physically and mythically – to the Maxakali territory, which is now confined to three portions of land in the Northeast of Minas Gerais, bordering the state of Bahia.
The fog of peace · Joel Stangle · Colombia · 2020
The mountains of Colombia have been a silent witness through 50 years of war. In the rebel camps deep in the forest, Teo writes the harsh memories of his fellow guerrilleros. Meanwhile Boris, a cameraman for the FARC, films behind the scenes of the peace negotiations between FARC leaders and the Colombian government in Cuba. As they deal with the reality of inserting themselves back into civilian life, they join together in the search for a cache hidden in the mountain.
Your turn · Eliza Capai · Brazil · 2019
When Brazil’s economic and social crisis deepened in the last decade, students protested and occupied hundreds of schools, demanding better public education and the end of austerity measures. The feature documentary “Espero tua (re)volta” / “Your Turn” depicts the Brazilian student movement from the protests of 2013 until the election of the new president, Jair Bolsonaro, in 2018. Inspired by the collective voice of the movement itself, the documentary is narrated by three high school students, who represent central points of their struggle. The narrators’ jostling for space and time exposes the movement’s conflicts and demonstrates its complexity.
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