Seven Hearts

A group of men is selected in Recife to enter a hermetic room, where the director, a woman, watches and films them. A TV set takes part in the conversation, and, meticulously controlled backstage, interrupts them abruptly with several images in which women will be a permanent fixture. The director is lurking behind, listening for her character’s comments and ready to reveal to us a collection of historical symptoms. In a time of highly mediatized combat against sexism, in Brazil emerges an action movie, with lots of ammunition.

Mode of Production 'makes the Union of Rural Workers of Ipojuca its central character. Retirements, layoffs, labor relations and a supposed economic-social development that approaches as a distant mirage or, perhaps, ghost: the Port of Suape.