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Weeks before the 2014 World Cup, four workers in São Paulo were followed by Maria Augusta Ramos, with her clinical, rigourous eye. Between professional situations and intimate moments, these real-life characters reveal utopias and disillusions in confronting the challenges of the country’s largest city. The director looks at the plurality of urban experiences and the paradoxes and contradictions typical in Brazilian society.
Maria Augusta Ramos
She is an award winning documentary maker. Her films (Desi, Justice, Behave, Hill of Pleasures) won a multitude of awards at festivals around the world, including IDFA, Visions du Reel, DOK Leipzig, Taiwan Int. Doc. Festival, CPH:DOX, Watch Docs IFF and Brasília Film Festival. Maria Ramos was the laureate of the 2013 Marek Nowicki Prize awarded by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, for her body of work.
