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BABENCO: TELL ME WHEN I DIE

BABENCO - ALGUÉM TEM QUE OUVIR O CORAÇÃO E DIZER: PAROU

By Bárbara PAZ

First film - Completed 2019

Venice - Biennale 2019

Venice Classics

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (online) 2021

Doc Market

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- First film, Historical
- Countries
- BRAZIL
- Languages
- SPANISH, FRENCH, ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE
- Duration
- 75 mn
- Director(s)
- Bárbara PAZ
- Cast
- Héctor BABENCO, Willem DAFOE, Bárbara PAZ
- Producer(s)
- Bárbara PAZ (HB Films), Myra BABENCO (HB Films), Caio GULLANE (GULLANE), Fabiano GULLANE (GULLANE)
- Synopsis
- “I have already lived my death and now all that is left is to make a film about it.” So said the filmmaker Hector Babenco to Bárbara Paz when he realized he did not have much time left. She accepted the challenge to fulfill the last wish of her late partner: to be the main protagonist in his own death. In this tender immersion into the life of one of the greatest filmmakers from South America, Babenco himself consciously bares his soul in intimate and painful situations. He expresses fears and anxieties, and also memories, reflections, and fantasies, in this face-off between his intellectual vigor and physical frailty, which were the hallmarks of his career.
  From the onset of cancer at the age of 38 until his death at 70, Babenco made of cinema his medicine and the nourishment that kept him alive. “Babenco – Tell me when I Die” is Barbara Paz’s first feature film, but is also, in a way, Hector’s last work: a film about filming so never to die.