Retratos de Identificação (2014)

Two Brazilian former guerrillas get their first glimpse of police identification photos taken after their respective arrests during the military dictatorship. The past resurfaces through the images, and with it comes a story of crimes so far unaccounted for. During the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985), the political prisoners were photographed by the police in different situations: investigations, arresting actions, torture, medical examinations, processes of banning, enquiries and necropsies. Nowadays, this documentation is revealed as pieces of evidence of crimes and violent acts committed by the armed forces and by the Civil Police. The photos reproduced in this film, taken from military archives, refer to the arresting of four people who were barbarously tortured: Espinosa, who by that time was the Commander of the armed organization VAR-Palmares, talks about his wife Dora and their friend in common Chael, who was violently tortured; Guarany, from another organization, ALN, meets Dora when they are being released from prision in exchange for the life of the Swiss ambassador Giovanni Bucher, who was kidnapped by the guerrillas. In exile, without passports, Guarany and Dora will live together under permanent police supervision in Chile, Mexico, Belgium, France and Germany. One day, in Berlin, Dora will put an end in this situation.