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Filmmaker Sandra Kogut on capturing Brazil's polarised election

• Sep 30, 2024, 12:00 AM
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A woman who captured on film Brazil's presidential election and the subsequent coup attempt as supporters of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the National Congress has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how her film has become a real historical document. Sandra Kogut had given out cameras and asked people from both sides of the polarised political spectrum to record the run-up to the election. She did not expect the level of violence that followed, and the quality of film that she and her citizen filmmakers managed to capture. On Perspective, she spoke to us about her film "At This Moment, in the Nation's Sky".

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