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O Dia Que Durou 21 Anos (The Day That Lasted 21 Years)

Camilo Tavares
Brazil, 2012, 77 min.

In Portuguese with English subtitles.
Includes violence.

Special Jury Award for Investigative Filmmaking

In the early 1960s, Brazil’s democratically-elected leaders pressed for social justice, national development, and agrarian reform. After Castro’s rise in Cuba, this raised alarm in the highest levels of US government, causing events to take a very different turn. Fifty years later, confidential documents and archival footage show what really happened.

Category: Documentary.
Themes: Social Justice, Politics, Historical, Human Rights, World Cinema, Latin America.

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