Paulo Fonseca

A man returns to his hometown and resumes a dangerous old affair...

In 1980, best friends Juliano and Joaquin join the gold rush at Serra Pelada, Bald Mountain, a mountain town near the mighty Amazon river. As the town grows in numbers, it also sees an explosion in violent crime and pollution. Soon the friends' dreams of hitting the jack pot are shattered. Winner of the 2014 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize.

A series of interviews of torture survivors from Brazil dictorship are mixed with performance.