A Deal with Chaos

A documentary that rescues the memories of those who built Santa Rosa dos Dourados, a small rural community in Brazil where cinema lives only in stories told, never seen. People who had never set foot in a movie theater now watch their own stories come to life on the big screen.

Inspired by Angela Davis's “Women, Race, and Class,” the film examines the intersecting struggles of race, class, and gender through the raw and unfiltered lens of the streets of São Paulo, Brazil, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mateus looks back on his eighteenth birthday, a day that changed his life forever.