A Noite de Alaíde

Despite her position at the epicentre of the Brazilian bossa nova scene, singer Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda, known as Miúcha, has been largely underappreciated. This documentary, which dives into her career and personal life through a rich collection of archives, aims to change that.

A year after the murder of Marielle Franco, militant of feminist causes, black and LGBTQI , her parents Antonio and Marinete da Silvia traveled to Paris. They went to the French capital to attend the inauguration of the garden that has their daughter’s name. At the ceremony, they recall the investigation of the crime that shot Marielle during her first year as city councilor of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. Three years after Marielle’s death, the garden passes through the change of seasons, but the crime against her and her driver Anderson da Silvia continues without an answer.

How can a queer, androgynous Brazilian, son of a saint in Candomblé, an immigrant from Santo Amaro da Purificação in Europe, for 23 years bring together more than 60 thousand people dancing to the sounds of atabaques in the streets of Paris? This ritual, the Lavagem da Madeleine, which washes the steps of the French church, is intertwined with the life of his creator, the dancer from the Paradis Latin cabaret, Robertinho Chaves. In search of his identity in the Afro-Brazilian diaspora of Paris, he is about to cross the border of masculine and feminine, between the sacred and the profane.