PREMIERE April 21 – Documentary “I Wanted to Be Everything” by Luisa Pinto

The documentary “I Wanted to Be Everything” has been selected for the Porto Femme – International Film Festival and will have its world premiere on 21 April at the Batalha Cinema Centre.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/c0QzU9UIr64?si=phWB6BTeGfM2xKgv

“I Wanted to Be Everything” addresses the horrors of proceedings carried out in total institutions, mental asylums and prisons, which took place during periods of oppression, focusing here on Brazil, and reflects the autocratic policies that seek to eradicate any ideological or behavioural dissent from authoritarian regimes. Although such cases also occurred among men, this documentary focuses primarily on women: those compulsorily committed, falsely diagnosed as mad for defying the norms, and those who were imprisoned and persecuted by the ‘dictatorships’, victims of the horror of years of persecution, sexual violence, intimate violence and torture. I Wanted to Be Everything is a call not to forget human rights violations, a call to the duty of remembrance, so that history does not repeat itself.

Directing – Luisa Pinto
Music and sound design – Carlos Azevedo
Cinematography – Paulo Ares
Editing and post-production – Vanessa Fernandes and Ivo Reis
Executive producer – Joaquim Gama
Production – Narrativensaio-AC with the support of Casa das Artes de Famalicão and Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo / FCT
Distribution – Filmógrafo