Is the City One Only?

A CIDADE É UMA SÓ?

Brazil, HD, 79 minutes, 2011
Directed by Adirley Queirós
A 400 Filmes e Cinco da Norte production

* Sponsored by Ministry of Culture, in partnership with Empresa Brasil de Comunicação – EBC (Brazil)
* Selected to nine festivals and exhibits in Brazil and abroad, such as: BAFICI (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012), World Cinema Amsterdam (Netherlands, 2012) and Tiradentes Film Festival (2012)
* Special Jury Award at Quinzena dos Realizadores (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2011)
* Critic's Jury Award at Tiradentes Film Festival (Brazil, 2012)
* Best Film at Fórum.doc (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2012)
* Commercial release in six cities in Brazil (2013), distributed by Vitrine Filmes
* Acquired by Canal Brasil TV (2013)
* Available on YouTube

SYNOPSIS

A reflection on Brasília’s 50 years, focused on a discussion about the permanent process of territorial and social exclusion suffered by a considerable part of the population of the Federal District and surroundings, and about how these people reestablish social order through their daily life. The starting point for that reflection is the so-called Invasion Eradication Campaign (in Portuguese, "Campanha de Erradicação de Invasões – CEI”), which, in 1971, removed the shacks that occupied the surroundings of the – then – young city of Brasília. With CEILÂNDIA as historical reference, the characters in the film experience and witness the changes in the city.