LA MANUELA is a movie about exile and self-reinvention. In august 2015, Manuela Lavinas Picq, a french-brazilian journalist and university professor, was arrested at a demonstration in Quito, Ecuador. That same night, her work visa was revoked and she was taken into custody. Manuela was forced to leave Ecuador, where she had lived for the last decade, losing her home, work and lover. This film tells the trajectory of an activist who defends the causes of indigenous peoples with a lot of identity.

LA MANUELA

They were born to take care of the home and children. They became warlike and politicized women, capable of seizing all weapons in the struggle for a return to democracy and against sexist structures of power.

O Pessoal é Político

Conceição Tavares is one of the most forceful, critical and original voices of Brazilian economic thought. This documentary gives an account of his life and work, while taking stock of more than half a century of a country looking for a future.