Movie

A Colônia (2021)

• December 7, 2021
• 1h 13m

• Documentary

Overview

Antônio Justa neighborhood, in Maracanaú (CE), arises from a colony founded in 1942 for the isolation of people with leprosy. Today the new residents and the descendants of the first patients live in a territory marked by irregular occupation and real estate speculation, crossed by the stigma of the disease in the past and the precarious current reality.

Directors

Mozart Freire, Virginia Pinho

Writers

Virginia Pinho, Miqueias de Moura Mesquita, Mozart Freire