BIMIFF #4 - ENG

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The fascist ideology is currently rising in Brazil; and the country's now former president, Jair
Bolsonaro, is its most prominent proponent. In many ways, Bolsonaro is an amalgam of other leading
far-right politicians - he borrows ideas from extremist right-wing movements in other countries and
synthesizes them into his unique ideology. It is not uncommon to see him reproducing phrases from
dictators like Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. Bolsonaro's patriotic campaign slogan (which is also
the name of his campaign coalition) is inspired by a phrase well-known among the Nazis. In Adolf
Hitler's Germany, one of the most repeated slogans was "Deutschland über alles," which means, in
Portuguese: "Germany above all." In 2018, US lawyer Mike Godwin, creator of Godwin's Law, which
criticizes the trivialization of comparisons with Nazism, permitted via Twitter the comparisons
between Bolsonaro and Hitler.
For Adriana Dias, an anthropologist who has studied neo-Nazism for 15 years, Bolsonaro's speech was
similar to what Hitler preached during his 1932 campaign in Germany. The construction of the Nazi
party was focused on the idea of national anti-corruption, very militaristic, and fundamentally based
on the idea that there was a Germany that was ending economically.
We talked with the director of the film "COISA PÚBLICA", André Borelli, and with the actress, Priscila
Ubba about the contribution of the film to the moment lived in the country, since the work is an
amalgamation of all the problems that involve intolerance and negationism. The story of the film takes
place in a student fraternity, where seven young people share their lives.
The actress Prisicila Ubba playing "Clarice"