Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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The role of the evangelical movement on Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to the presidency is explored with commentary from leading figures across the Brazilian political spectrum, including Bolsonaro’s left-wing successor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and televangelist Silas Malafaia, a close associate of Bolsonaro.[7] The documentary shows Malafaia to have had a defining influence on Bolsanaro, while mustering support from Brasil’s evangelical movement, in the path to Bolsanaro losing the 2022 presidential elections and in the protests and attempted insurrection that followed.Read More »

Synopsis:
A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis, the personal and political fuse in The Edge of Democracy to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. Combining unprecedented access to Presidents Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff with accounts of her own family’s complex political and industrial past, filmmaker Petra Costa (Elena, 2012) witnesses their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.Read More »