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Anastácias

2021 · 81 min

An intimate, quietly powerful documentary that sits with five women as they speak about love, pain and survival, asking for patience and empathy.

Directed by: Thatiane Almeida
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Márcia Cristina Pereira Amaral, Maria Anaí dos Santos, Maria Aparecida Falcão

Overview: How do women, who have lived affective relationships that involved some form of violence, live and relate to the world? "Anastácias", portrays the lives of five black women from communities in the Jabaquara region, on the southern outskirts of São Paulo, from the premise of affection.

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Directed by: Thatiane Almeida
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Márcia Cristina Pereira Amaral, Maria Anaí dos Santos, Maria Aparecida Falcão

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: trauma
healing
race
gender
isolation
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Humour	2
Realism	10
Romance	2
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Thatiane Almeida
Written by: Caroline Margoni
Starring: Márcia Cristina Pereira Amaral, Maria Anaí dos Santos, Maria Aparecida Falcão, Cenira Barboza da Silva, Janaina Saraiva de Jesus
Music: Lucas Cirillo
Cinematography: Maria Navarro
Runtime: 81 min
Languages: Portuguese

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