Alien Nights
Drama / Dir: Sérgio de Carvalho / Brazil / 91' / 2022
“Urban youth culture and gang criminality woven together with ancient rites in exciting Brazilian debut spiced with spaceships and magical realism” MUBI
“Sérgio de Carvalho combines artistic skill with an unquestionable relevance” ADORO CINEMA
“In this non-place, trafficking infiltrates whites, blacks, indigenous peoples —these aliens— with the same ease with which native peoples are dispossessed of their culture and thrown into some Pentecostal cult.” FOLHA DE SAO PAULO
“…there is the richness and ancestry of the different indigenous
ethnic groups that live there, allied to the creative poignancy of
black youth.”
REVISTA O GRITO
Synopsis:
City and forest collide when sprawling drug trafficking gangs from the
developed south infiltrate the remote depths of an urban community
hinterland up the Amazon estate. The magic realism inherent from the
local inhabitant’s ancestral ritualistic faith and culture suffers devastating
impact when confronted the narcotraffic criminal violence, with a deadly
impact on youth. The narrative focused on the lives of three school
friends who grew up together but who now have to make choices which will
define their lives forever.
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