THE BATTLE

A BATALHA DA RUA MARIA ANTÔNIA

By Vera EGITO

PARANOID FILMES - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2023

21 long-takes depict moments of the real event known as the Battle of the Students, in October 1968, during the Brazilian dictatorship.

Festivals
& Awards

Rio de Janeiro IFF 2023
Best Film
Chicago IFF 2023
Sao Paulo IFF 2023
Valladolid 2023
Fundos - Best Film
Austin 2023
Janela Internaciona de Cinema do Recife 2023
Jio Mami Mumbai 2023
Margenes 2023
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Drama, Female director, Historical
    • Countries
    • BRAZIL
    • Languages
    • BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
    • Duration
    • 84 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Vera EGITO
    • Writer(s)
    • Vera EGITO
    • Producer(s)
    • Heitor DHALIA (PARANOID FILMES), Egisto BETTI (PARANOID FILMES), Manoel RANGEL (PARANOID FILMES)
    • Synopsis
    • 21 long-takes depict moments of the real event known as the Battle of the Students, in October 1968, during the Brazilian dictatorship. Alongside, students and professors of the Left Student Movement, in the building of the Philosophy School of São Paulo University in a definitive night. The characters face attacks by the Communist-Chasing Committee coming from across the street, from Mackenzie Presbyterian University. When confrontation erupts, screams, molotovs, rocks, sticks, homemade bombs are thrown and an innocent boy is killed. 24 hours alive with the passion of the youth of the 60s, in defense of an ideal, on the verge of the military invasion of the Philosophy School building.