Doces Sonhos (2017)

Abandoning the position of object to (re)take their place as the narrator of their own experience, the documentary explores the relationship between mother and son and the struggles of survival for black families living in peripheral and marginalized areas, both geographically and socially. The traditional, racist, and bourgeois media hardly disseminate and invisibilize this issue. Data from Amnesty International reveals that every 23 minutes a young black person is murdered in Brazil. With distorted data and the non-recognition of the excessive use of force by the armed forces of the State, the topic remains silenced, especially by the media. Through the figure of the black mother, who in many cases raises her child alone and fights against an excluding, sexist, and racist system, having to subject herself to menial jobs and relying on her child's help to provide for the family. As a result, the child drops out of school, loses their childhood, and becomes a target of the genocidal machine of the system. With accounts from black mothers from the favelas of Maré who share their stories of resistance, positioning, and loss. (Re)constructing an anachronistic narrative that is familiar to all peoples belonging to the black diaspora.