Let It Burn

Name: Let It Burn
Director: Maíra Bühler
Released: April 5, 2021, 7:25 p.m.
Rating: 9.0

9 10
2019
85min

Portuguese

English Spanish French Catalan

Country: Brazil

Original Title: Diz a Ela que Me Viu Chorar

In a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, all the inhabitants are part of a program to overcome crack addiction. In every corner of this place, a face reveals itself to us with all its humanity and viscerality.

Portuguese
English Spanish French Catalan
Country: Brazil
Original Title: Diz a Ela que Me Viu Chorar

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS: True/False Film Fest/ Cinema Du Réel

Let It Burn. The faces behind crack

Downtown São Paulo, Brazil. An Apartment Building: 7 floors, 28 rooms, 107 residents who all have in common the addiction to crack.

Over the course of several months, life in a social housing - part of a city hall "damage reduction" program about to be extinguished - is revealed.

Characters on a hallucinated hunt for bonding and fighting passionately for life can be seen as the camera drifts through hallways, rooms, elevators, stairs; day and night. In this claustrophobic place, anything can happen.