Mormaço

Very well shot and planned politically important movie on a violation of people's rights during the constructions aiming reshaping Rio de Janeiro prior Olympic Games. The film shows residents in a middle-class building and in slum Vila Autódromo both being pressured to leave and allow their current homes to be destroyed in order to make respectively a hotel and a park. Meanwhile, the public lawyer who lived in the former and defended the latter acquires a weird disease...

Sultry or Mormaço combines different genres, fantasy, political, drama, etc. using visuals to make social commentary about 2016 Rio de Janiero's Olympics. That year, many resident areas were displaced to create attractions for tourism for the Olympics.

This feature is dazzling, a slow burner in using different genres to produce a story based on true events surrounding the 2016 Olympics. It also considered one of the hottest summers that face Rio de Janiero's area.

It centers on a public lawyer, Ana representing residents being threaten to move. The residents have regular meetings with Ana to prepare to lobby against the city government. Then Ana develops a unknown medical condition that starts a metaphorsis that only complicates her life