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The Poles

The Poles

2020 · 77 min · Music, Documentary, Science Fiction

Just before the Covid surge, a tour through futuristic carnivals of antiquity and the latest versions of things in São Paulo before the outbreak. Cars, bicycles and vehicles powered by petrochemicals still take one last ride in normality. In another parallel world, Carnival takes place in its various forms.

Directed by Claudio Szynkier

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