Your Turn

When numerous schools in São Paulo were slated to be closed in 2015 as a result of the worsening socio-political crisis, students occupied more than a thousand public buildings in an unprecedented act of self-empowerment. Filmmaker Eliza Capai shows the development of the many-voiced protests, using news excerpts, self-conducted interviews and recordings made with activists’ own cell phone cameras. From the first demonstrations in 2013 and continuing all the way to the election of the extreme right-wing presidential Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, Capai’s highly political work becomes more and more relevant with each passing day.

• Eliza CapaiDirector
• Decio 7Original Music Composer
• Eliza CapaiWriter

• Nayara SouzaNarrator
• Lucas PenteadoNarrator
• Marcela JesusNarrator
• Jair BolsonaroHimself (archive footage)
• Geraldo AlckminHimself (archive footage)
• Fernando HaddadHimself (archive footage)
• Guilherme BoulosHimself (archive footage)
• Dilma RousseffHimself (archive footage)