Flora
While traveling through her memories, a woman enslaved for 48 years receives her letter of manumission and questions her freedom.
Flora Maria Blumer de Toledo, a woman born into slavery on a sugarcane farm in the interior of Brazil, recalls the memories and stories of her childhood and youth in a scenario of deprivation of freedom, while idealizing freedom and seeing the world around her being transformed at every moment.
The rise and fall of large sugarcane farms, the arrival of European and American immigrants, Catholicism and Protestantism, and the wave of abolitionist revolts that make the slavery system in Brazil unsustainable.
Flora achieves her freedom, but how can she free herself from a series of memories that come not only from her own experiences, but from the entire ancestry of the black Afro-diasporic people.
Memories that fill the historical gap in her life and have never been told.
Directed by
Beto Oliveira
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- August: Realism
- Best Character Study
- Best Cross-Cultural Narrative
- Best Cultural Documentary
- Best Depiction of Daily Life
- Best Environmental Story
- Best Existential Short
- Best Horror Film
- Best Narrative Based on True Events
- Best Natural Performance
- Best Portrayal of Mental Health
- Best Psychological Thriller
- Best Realism Film
- Best Scary Monster or Entity
- Best Story of Healing
- Best Under-Represented Story
- Best Unreliable Narrator
- Best Use of Makeup/Practical FX
- Best Use of Native Language
- March: Voices of the World
- Most Disturbing Concept
- Most Emotionally Raw Moment
- November: The Human Condition
- October: Nightmares & Monsters
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