‘Apocalypse In The Tropics’ Exclusive Trailer Debut

Exclusive: When will democracy end, and the Democracy begins? This is the main question in the exit for the Academy Award Petra CostaUrgent new documentary film The end of the world in tropical regionsIt is scheduled to open in selected theaters in the United States and the United Kingdom on July 11, and in Brazil this Thursday, and the show is shown all over the world Netflix On July 14.

The movie Costa does not focus on Iran or Afghanistan – as the thuophobia over the government has become a base – but in a place where the church and the state are separated in the constitution: its Brazilian home. This idea, the basic of Brazilian democracy and American traditions as well, is exposed to an increasing threat of ascension Christian nationalism. In Christian national thinking – the rise in Brazil and the United States – Jesus, the average of the book of revelation, fits a battle with his opponents, and is eager to leak the blood to achieve the will of God. The secular government is cursed.

Our first look at Oscar in the trailer above.

“in The end of the world in tropical regionsDirector Petra Costa explains on a journey that lasted for a decade through the spiritual and political turmoil of Brazil, “What begins as a search for signs of life in a fragile democracy that turns into a deeper achievement in the temptations of power, prophecy and faith. Costa acquires an unusual access to the current President Luiz Insio Lula Da Silva, former President Gere Bolsonaro, and a magnetic TV player in the country. Register for political change, the end of the world in the tropical regions is a cinematic investigation of the rift lines that appear when the political ambition nourishes.

The summary continues, “with the brutal clarity that has set the Academy Award for it The edge of democracyCosta documents the time of confusion and fear of making intimate observation films that combine personal, historical and legendary characters. While faith moves from a special shelter to the public battlefield, Brazil carries a mirror of a world where democracies are tested through the power of prophecy.

For anyone who might feel that the film is only related to Brazil, he thought that Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican in Louisiana, is linked to Christian nationalism. This is how the influential conference member Margori Taylor Green. Defense Minister Beit Higseth Beers, a tattoo linked to the religious movement. The Supreme Court, with a Christian majority, has proven that it is increasingly recovered for the introduction of religion – especially Christianity – in the public domain. (In the ruling of 6-3 last week, the court allowed parents to protect their children from lessons in public schools they object to on a religious basis).

In an interview with him recently with the deadline, Costa commented on the Christian national preoccupation with the violent Jesus, who preaches “that you must kill your enemies and destroy your enemies, and inform your enemies. Marriage between this Christian fundamentalism and the far right is not compatible with democracy because the main principle of democracy is to have to contract with your era.”

“Although the United States is the first country to declare the separation of the church and the state, it is also the first to create such a deliberate movement to stir politics with Christianity and mobilize its followers in these cultural wars that now have its top now” when I look at the history of American policy through what I discovered in this movie, the matter is the basis that you see. “

The end of the world in tropical regions It was first shown at the Venice Film Festival and made the first show in North America in Telluride. It has been shown in other prominent festivals around the world, including San Sebastian, hot springs in Arkansas, Camden in Maine, Zurich, Idfa in the Netherlands, CPH: Dox in Copenhagen, Millennium Documents against Gravity in Poland, Drings, WW/Dux.

The documentary was written by Petra Costa and produced by Alessandra Orofino and Costa. See the trailer The end of the world in tropical regions above.