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BABYLON

By Francisco BAHIA

LES CINEMAS DU MONDE - LA FABRIQUE CINEMA DE L’INSTITUT FRANÇAIS - as PROMO

First film - Development 2020

A Haitian immigrant needs to investigate the death of an old friend, and the only way to do it is to encounter voodoo forces, from which he had distanced himself out of fear.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- First film, Documentary
- Countries
- BRAZIL, HAITI
- Languages
- PORTUGUESE, CREOLE, FRENCH, AFRIKAANS
- Director(s)
- Francisco BAHIA
- Producer(s)
- Alice RIFF (Sendero Filmes)
- Synopsis
- A Haitian immigrant in Brazil, Espera is always thinking about new ways to get the money he sends monthly to his family in Haiti. One day, an old friend from home asks him to identify her brother’s corpse at a morgue. Espera needs to find out the cause of this death. He knows that the only way to do so is through voodoo, but he thinks that bad things can happen if he enters into contact with spirits. This investigation into the death of his friend brings us on a discovery of Sao Paolo’s Haitian community and its music.