Mormaço

2018
1h 34m

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Rio de Janeiro, 2016. The hottest summer in history. The city is preparing for the Olympic Games. Ana, a 32-year-old public defender, works in the defense of a community threatened with remo... Read allRio de Janeiro, 2016. The hottest summer in history. The city is preparing for the Olympic Games. Ana, a 32-year-old public defender, works in the defense of a community threatened with removal by the works of the Olympic Park. Meanwhile, she's been noticing purple fungus-like sp... Read allRio de Janeiro, 2016. The hottest summer in history. The city is preparing for the Olympic Games. Ana, a 32-year-old public defender, works in the defense of a community threatened with removal by the works of the Olympic Park. Meanwhile, she's been noticing purple fungus-like spots on her body. Strange things begin to happen in the city as well as in Ana's body. The ... Read all

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8babyjaguar

Mormaço: Morphing a Social Statement

Sultry or Mormaço combines different genres, fantasy, political, drama, etc. using visuals to make social commentary about 2016 Rio de Janiero's Olympics. That year, many resident areas were displaced to create attractions for tourism for the Olympics.

This feature is dazzling, a slow burner in using different genres to produce a story based on true events surrounding the 2016 Olympics. It also considered one of the hottest summers that face Rio de Janiero's area.

It centers on a public lawyer, Ana representing residents being threaten to move. The residents have regular meetings with Ana to prepare to lobby against the city government. Then Ana develops a unknown medical condition that starts a metaphorsis that only complicates her life

8guisreis

Rio de Janeiro, not always a marvellous town

Very well shot and planned politically important movie on a violation of people's rights during the constructions aiming reshaping Rio de Janeiro prior Olympic Games. The film shows residents in a middle-class building and in slum Vila Autódromo both being pressured to leave and allow their current homes to be destroyed in order to make respectively a hotel and a park. Meanwhile, the public lawyer who lived in the former and defended the latter acquires a weird disease...