ONCE THERE WAS BRASÍLIA
Fiction, 99 min, 2017

In 1959, disgraced intergalactic agent WA4 receives a mission: to come to the Earth and kill the president Juscelino Kubitschek on the day of Brasília’s inauguration. But his ship is lost in time and lands in 2016 in Ceilândia — a Black suburb of Brasilia — on the verge of Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment.

Credits

Director and Writer: Adirley Queirós
Cinematographer and Camera: Joana Pimenta
Sound: Francisco Craesmeyer
Production Designer: Denise Vieira
Editing: Adirley Queirós, Guile Martins, Fred Benevides
Sound Designer: Guile Martins
Production Company: Cinco da Norte, Ceicine (BRA)
Co-producers: Terratreme Filmes (PT) and Quarta-Feira Filmes (BRA)

Festivals

⦁ Locarno IFF 2017 – Special Jury Mention / Signs of Life
⦁ Brasília Film Festival 2017 – Best Director; Best Cinematography; Best Sound
⦁ Janela Internacional de Cinema de Recife 2017
⦁ Mar del Plata IFF 2017
⦁ FilmFest Hamburg 2017
⦁ DocLisboa 2017
⦁ FICUNAM 2018
⦁ Jeonju IFF 2018
⦁ Viennale 2019