Brazil is going through a political crisis which even representatives of our institutions reproduce speeches that seek to criminalize social movements by framing them as terrorists. The short "Teto Pra Quem" seeks to question the brutality of common sense fueled by the conservative wave by opposing it to the reality of thousands of families and their struggles in the pursuit of one of their most basic human rights: living under a roof.
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Brazil is going through a political crisis which even representatives of our institutions reproduce speeches that seek to criminalize social movements by framing them as terrorists. The short "Teto Pra Quem" seeks to question the brutality of common sense fueled by the conservative wave by opposing it to the reality of thousands of families and their struggles in the pursuit of one of their most basic human rights: living under a roof.
2019-04-09
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A film about families in the struggle to have their own home
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