Vitória

This based on true events from 2005, on which this film is based, shocked the whole of Brazil at the time: Nina, an elderly lady played by screen icon Fernanda Montenegro, lives alone in Rio de Janeiro. Every day, she looks out of her window and sees the worst crimes imaginable. There is drug dealing, shooting, screaming, murder—all in plain sight. She has had enough of the madness and decides to do something about it. She buys a video camera, firmly believing that the documentary footage she shoots from her window will finally prompt the police to take action. And indeed, she brings sensational material to the police headquarters. At first she is dismissed as a quirky old woman, but a reporter takes up the case and discovers why the police are so strangely inefficient in this area. Nina herself becomes a target, and then her little friend Marcinho from the neighborhood, to whom she is a “surrogate grandmother,” also gets caught between the fronts…

Andrucha Waddington took over the direction of this film from Breno Silveira after his death during filming in May 2022. Dona Vitória, whose story the film tells, died in 2023 – her true identity could only be revealed after her death. Partly because the intertwining of reality and fiction is so special and unique, this film was eagerly awaited in Brazil.

Programme

8 pm
Talk with Leonardo Barros (producer), Sidney Martins & Dorothee Wenner (curators)
in German

9 pm
Film screening