

Honestino(2025)
“I wait for the party of the world”
Arrested five times for his activism, student leader Honestino Guimarães was kidnapped in 1973 at the age of 26 and is one of the hundreds of people who disappeared during the Brazilian military dictatorship.

Movie: Honestino
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