NO KINGS

By Emilia MELLO

NOISE FILM & TV - as PROMO

Documentary - Completed 2020

In a world without gods and kings, nature is the supreme authority. A sensuous and increasingly political film from a small community along the coast of Brazil.

Festivals
& Awards

CPH:DOX 2020
DOX:AWARD Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • BRAZIL
    • Languages
    • Other
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Emilia MELLO
    • Producer(s)
    • Emilia MELLO, Roberto MINERVINI, Denise PING LEE
    • Synopsis
    • Not too far from Rio de Janeiro's rumbling motorways and electric lights there is a place where carving canoes and building houses with clay are still essential to life. 'No Kings' is made in the same free spirit that defines the lives of the inhabitants of the small community between the sea and the rain forest. Out here, nature itself is the supreme authority. The rest of society with its gods and kings is a distant echo. The vital, saturated universe enshrouds us as we are out catching crabs with the children or hear the rain patter on the roof in the middle of the night. The Caiçara people maintain and cultivate the last remnants of the Atlantic rain forest, and their traditions are based on sustainable values from Brazil, Japan, Africa and Europe. But Brazil's new government has other plans for the rain forest and for the country's many minorities. Emilia Mello's sensuous and free film starts in an immersive ethnographic track, but eventually moves in a more personal and politically urgent direction.