Alvorada (2021)

The film narrates from an intimate point of view, the daily life of President Dilma Rousseff in her official residence, the Palácio do Alvorada, while awaiting the verdict of impeachment that ended up alienating the first woman president of Brazil. Portraying the corridors of the palace designed by Oscar Niemeyer, we see the back and forth of political meetings, the day-to-day cooking, the changing of guards, whispers and endless phone calls. The feeling of the growing tension of employees, advisers, ex-ministers, perplexed and almost without action. One group or another arrives to support the falling president. But the sinking seems inevitable.