APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS

DOC NYC SUMMER SELECTS 

Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 
Time: 7:30pm ET
Venue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYC
TRT: 110 minutes

As Petra Costa explored in her 2019 Academy-Award® nominated THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY, the concept of democracy in Brazil has been plagued by institutional corruption and populist mistrust almost since its restoration in the mid-1980s. In her follow-up, APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS, Costa now explores how Christian fundamentalism has seized political discourse in one of the world’s most populous nations. With stunning access to Lula, Bolsonaro and others, Costa distills the tumultuous recent chaos of Brazil’s politics into a clear-eyed and deeply troublesome vision of both brazen and unseen forces at work on a vulnerable population. Numerous international parallels are not difficult to make.

The screening was followed by an on-stage conversation with Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Petra Costa.