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Press
- "The film takes on a poetic and sensual underpinning, blending music, history, and memory.”
- The setup is thus a fascinating one, combining hot-button issues like inequality and race with a female point of view at a pivotal moment in the country’s history.
- An aristocratic family in 1899 São Paulo struggle to cope with their loss of status while former slaves seek to overcome their chains.
Synopsis
In Brazil, 1899, shortly after the abolition of slavery, the ghosts of the past still walk among the living. For the women of the Soares family, the task of giving up their privilege and adapting to a middle-class reality drives them to the brink of madness. For Iná Nascimento, a former enslaved woman, the struggle to reunite her loved ones in a hostile new world forces her to face the truth about herself. Between Brazil’s troubled past and fractured present, these women feel the ground shifting beneath their feet as they try to create a future of their own.
- Screenplay:
- Caetano Gotardo, Marco Dutra
- Cinematography:
- Hélène Louvart, AFC
- Sound:
- Gabriela Cunha, Rubén Valdes, Christophe Vingtrinier
- Edit:
- Juliana Rojas, Caetano Gotardo, Marco Dutra
- Music:
- “Salloma” Salomão, Gui Braz
- Cast:
- Mawusi Tulani, Clarissa Kiste, Carolina Bianchi, Thaia Perez, Agyei Augusto, Leonor Silveira, Alaíde Costa, Rogério Brito, Thomás Aquino
- Production Company:
- Dezenove Som e Imagens , Good Fortune Films, Bord Cadre films
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Director's statement
When we made "All the dead ones", we wanted to revisit Brazil’s past not as distant history, but as a living presence inside the present. Set in the years following the abolition of slavery, the film explores how former slave-owning families and newly freed Black citizens remain bound by invisible structures of power. Through silence, music, and ritual, we sought to reveal tensions that words often conceal. **The film ultimately expresses** that abolition did not erase inequality—it merely transformed it. By intertwining intimate family drama with historical memory, we invite viewers to confront how unresolved injustices continue to shape identities, relationships, and social hierarchies today.