A Film to Remind Us of Utopia

In Esdras Baptista's film archives, kept at his home for decades, one can feel the fervor of those who believed in a new tomorrow. Filmed in Brazil in the early 1960s, in the heat of a libertarian political movement, the filmmaker's images materialize the incandescence of collective desires at the historic moment of their emergence. Utopia, though unattainable, is never a mere abstraction. A force that mobilizes actions and feelings, it constitutes the impetus necessary for human existence.

• Reinaldo CardenutoDirector
• Reinaldo CardenutoWriter

• João Luiz VieiraNarrator
• Francisco JuliãoSelf (archive footage)
• Rafael de CarvalhoSelf (archive footage)
• Helena IgnezSelf (archive footage)
• Oduvaldo Vianna FilhoSelf (archive footage)
• Joel BarcellosSelf (archive footage)
• Jorge CoutinhoSelf (archive footage)
• Armando CostaSelf (archive footage)
• João GoulartSelf (archive footage)
• Tancredo NevesSelf (archive footage)
• Esdras BaptistaSelf (archive footage)