Is the City Only One?

  • Brazil A Cidade é Uma Só?
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Brazil, 2011, 73 min

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A reflection on Brasília's 50 years, focused on a discussion about the permanent process of territorial and social exclusion suffered by a considerable part of the population of the Federal District and surroundings, and about how these people reestablish social order through their daily life. The starting point for that reflection is the so-called Invasion Eradication Campaign (Campanha de Erradicação de Invasões – CEI), which, in 1971, removed the shacks that occupied the surroundings of the – then – young city of Brasília. With Ceilândia as historical reference, the characters in the film experience and witness the changes in the city. (official distributor synopsis)

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