Seven Years in May

It was a warm May night when Rafael was beaten, tortured and abducted by the police, in the Brazilian city of Bello Horizonte. What casts an even more chilling effect to this horrifying incident is that it took place in the pre-Bolsonaro era: the newly elected alt-right has gone a step further, consolidating and encouraging police brutality. A low-key and allegorical tale of everyday oppression that gives voice to the marginalized of a society ridden with ferocious inequalities. Yet, even in this grim rendition of inhumanity, hints of optimism manage to stay afloat. After all, “there’s no night that lasts forever.”