Os Órfãos de Canudos (2017)

The documentary proposes a reflection on the Canudos War and its consequences through a very little known fact, that of a group of about 250 women and children who survived the war. After Canudos decimated, these women and children were left at the mercy of their own luck. A testimony by historian Vanessa Sattamini, who walked the trail of the boy's whereabouts from Canudos, brings an unprecedented approach to film. Even today, Canudos raises questions about the Republic that we built and that, 120 years later, lives with the same social inequality of the war period and confronts us with the contradiction of two Brazils: modern Brazil against archaic Brazil, the one of yesterday and today's.