SOCIO-FICCIÓN

Socio-ficción gathers three recent Brazilian films that successfully use fiction to convey stark social commentaries. Sacrificing strict factual accuracy in favor of repurposing the bourgeois aesthetics of popular film genres, each confronts the public with the taboo, the unconventional, and the downright strange. While Bacurau borrows tropes from the classic American Western, Divino Amor (Divine Love) is a dystopian neon science-fiction and As Boas Maneiras (Good Manners) an explicit monster horror. Each film in this open-air series brings questions of land struggle, secularism, and class conflict to life with high entertainment value.

Galo E. Rivera (they/he) is an immunologist (Dr. rer. nat), audiovisual artist, and web developer born in Ecuador.