Brazilian director Petra Costa It has a way to make documentary films about Brazil that speaks directly and soundly for American policy.
Her movie Candidate for the Academy Award for the year 2019 The edge of democracy It explains the importance of the peaceful transfer of power to any form of democratic government. This rule was violated in Brazil after the election of Dilma Rousseff as a president in 2011, then confirmed in 2020, a long period of the appearance of her movie, Donald Trump became the first American president to refuse to transfer power in peace to his successor Joe Biden.
The new Costa movie, The end of the world in tropical regionsThe emergence of Christian nationalism in Brazil, which affects the country in deep and disturbing ways. The movement was manufactured and inspired by Christian nationalists in the United States, who are gaining influence here and became a major component of PRES. Trump base. It was the Christian nationalists who played a leading role in the rebellion in the Capitol on January 6.
The end of the world in tropical regions Screen in Sheffield Docfest In the United Kingdom on Saturday, the last festival after the first world show was stopped last September in Venice, the appearances in Tylaorid, the Camden International Film Festival in Min, the CPH: Dox in Copenhagen, the New York Film Festival and more. The first documentary on Netflix On July 14.
(LR) “The Edge of Democracy”, Shin Boris, producer Joanna Natasigra, Director Petra Costa, and producer Thiago Pavan attend the 92nd annual Academy Awards on February 9, 2020
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The emergence of this investigation was the emergence of religious fundamentalism in Brazil while filming The edge of democracy“I arrived at Congress in an attempt to understand what was happening for Brazilian democracy, and in the middle of the isolation, we had from our first president Dilma Rousseff. When I arrived at Congress, instead of finding Congress members discussing the issue on hand, I found them to bless the Congress headquarters and speak in tongues led by a shepherd and a member of the Congress that was there. Thus, I asked him what would happen to Brazilian democracy, and he said that in the divine government, God would decide; Everything was in the hands of God. He asked me to accept Jesus and gave me the Bible. ”
“This was a moment in fact a awakening of tectonic paintings that constituted the Brazilian policy, which I was not aware of,” Costa added.
One of the traditions of Christianity emphasizes the care of the poor and the oppressed, and “the words of Christ like” your love as your neighbor as a weapon, as Costa notes. This is consistent with a more liberal political point of view. But Christian nationalism – a branch of evangelical Christianity focuses on something radically different. As the director explains, it is busy with “the last book of the Bible, which is the book of revelation that says – different from what Jesus differs in all of Jesus Gospels – you must kill your enemies, destroy your enemies, and exterminate your enemies.
President Trump responds to the correspondent question during an event in the Eastern White House on June 12, 2025 in Washington, DC
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Mocked your enemies, destroying your enemies – the sound is familiar? This is a common topic in Trump’s messages. Among his opponents within the Republican Party, Trump published in all hats, “Elizabeth Lin Cheney is guilty of treason. [Re-post] If you want the military courts. ”At the campaign’s path last year, warn that if the“ left -wing extremists ”disrupts the elections,“ it must be dealt with very easily – if necessary, by the National Guard, or if necessary, by the army. ”Flash this month, when Trump published the Marines and National Guard in California To “suppress” peaceful protests against ice tours.
It is concerned that the growth of Christian nationalist ideology at the end of the world appears to cause a major escalation of violence in the political arena. The suspect last week Assassination According to what was reported that the deputy in the state of Minnesota Melissa Hortmann and her husband – and the shooting of a member of the state for the state and his wife – have close relations with the Christian national movement.
The movement, which confirms that America is a Christian nation – built by Christians and cars – directly contradicts the basic constitutional principles.
“Although the United States is the first nation to be forced to declare the separation of the church and the state,” Kosta notes: “It is also the first to create such a deliberate movement to derive politics with Christianity and mobilize its followers in these cultural wars that have now become for the sake of Maga.
Defense Minister Beit Higseth testifies to the Capitol Hill on June 11, 2025
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Defense Minister Beit Higseth is said to have close relations with the Christian national movement. The Jerusalem Cross, sometimes known as the Crusader Cross, decorates its chest. His arm was described with a cross and a sword, which was said to be a reference to a verse in the Gospel of Matthew saying: “I do not assume that I came to bring peace to the ground; I did not come to bring peace, but Saif.”
“We are now seeing the fruits and decision to continue religion in politics,” says Costa.
“For the Americans, what I think is more important to think about seeing this film, is that for many people who are not for religion – as was the case for me – we almost forgot about how religion is an important aspect in people’s lives in the case of Brazil and the United States,” said Costa on the line of deadline. “If we decide to ignore religion, then we must be aware that we are ignoring half of our country. Therefore, if we want to block it and communicate with the other half of our country, we must think about how to play religion in their daily lives and how we can deal with that, and how we can speak in their language.”
And it continues, “The other side is how important it is to maintain the separation of the Church and the state and how we can draw attention to the religious people. Because the main reason behind the existence of the separation between the Church and the state is the protection of Christians from persecution by other Christians. We want to return to the wars of religion [already] He lived as humanity. “
“We have been able to create a mechanism to coexist with very complex and very beautiful, and I hope we will not destroy it, and we are on the way to destroy it,” added Costa.
