Apocalypse in the Tropics
Petra Costa | Documentary | 110’ | color | 35mm/DCP | Brazil | 2024
The Edge of Democracy
Petra Costa | Documentary | 121' | color | Brazil | 2019
Ecstasy
Moara Passoni | Fiction | 75’ | color | 35mm/DCP | Brazil | 2020
Olmo and the Seagull
Petra Costa & Lea Glob | Documentary | 87’ | color | 35mm/DCP | Denmark, Brazil, Portugal, France, Sweden | 2024
Elena
Petra Costa | Documentary | 82’ | color | 35mm/DCP | Brazil | 2012
Undertow Eyes
Petra Costa | Short-film | 20’ | color | 35mm/DCP | Brazil | 2009At Busca Vida, memory and history are intertwined territories. Memory pulses through the past; life asserts itself in the present. Cinema unfolds in the space between.
Our films emerge precisely from this encounter — when individual trauma finds a voice and breaks imposed silences; when love becomes a political act in the face of polarization and hate; when the feminine gaze unsettles crystallized perspectives shaped by patriarchal and colonial worldviews.
It is in this threshold — this space-between — that we choose to act: where remembering is an act of resistance, and storytelling becomes a way of reimagining the world.
Petra Costa
Petra is the creative force that shaped the ethical and aesthetic identity of Busca Vida. Her films — deeply personal and historically grounded — gave the company a singular voice in contemporary cinema. From its inception, the work of Busca Vida has been marked by three foundational forces: trauma as a rupture that reconfigures memory; love as an ethical stance that resists the logic of hate; and the feminine as a way of seeing and narrating the world with depth and complexity.
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