De Profundis (2014)

overview : At the end of the 80's, the city of Itacuruba, in the backlands of Pernambuco, was transferred to another locality due to the construction of a hydroelectric plant. In the new region, the city began to register many suicides, reaching a rate ten times greater than the national average. Through memories of the lost city, villagers reveal that the root of a people is like the root of a tree: essential to life.

Release Date : Jan 01, 2014

Runtime : 21m

Genre : Documentary  

Companies : SET Produções, Tangram Cultural, Ateliê de Imagem

Countries : Brazil

Keywords : suicide, city portrait, memory