The Edge of Democracy

Petra Costa

IndieLisboa 2019 • Independent Hero

Brasil, Documentary, 2019, 122′

Combining unprecedented access to Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, with accounts of her own family’s complex political and industrial past, Petra Costa witnesses their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.

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