Decades of activism, conferences, warnings, demonstrations and countless promises by politicians and businessmen seem to have little effect on the growing climate problems that now threaten the very…
Hill of Pleasures (2013)
Winner
Best Sound
46e Festival de Brasilia
2014
Winner
Best Photography
46e Festival de Brasilia
2014
After decades of lawlessness, order seems to have returned to the Hill of Pleasures. In one of Rio’s largest favelas, a Police Pacifying Unit has taken over control from organized crime. There is intensive patrolling, jurisdiction has been restored and for the first time inhabitants get to voice their complaints. But years of police brutality and corruption aren’t that easily forgotten. In the film Hill of Pleasures (Morro dos Prazeres), director Maria Ramos shows the daily tensions between inhabitants and occupants. Six eyewitnesses talk about the obstacles on the road to reconciliation.
HILL OF PLEASURES is not simply a documentary about the occupation of a favela by the UPP. The film is ultimately a portrait of Brazilian society: how our characters’ lives are shaped by society and the changes that are now taking place in Brazil.
Festival official selection:
A story about the hope, doubt and silence of a Syrian family in the Netherlands, who lost their youngest daughter in the Mediterranean Sea in 2014.
