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Costa not only dug into the behavior and power of the religious right in Brazil but lost sleep poring over apocalyptic texts ...
Netflix released the documentary ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics,’ which seeks to understand how the far right mobilizes faith for political interest.
When I watched Petra Costa’s Oscar-nominated 2019 documentary The Edge of Democracy, it was impossible not to be struck by ...
We continue our conversation with Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa about her new Netflix documentary, Apocalypse in the ...
The director Petra Costa examines a rightward shift in her country by zeroing in on the rise of a televangelist.
Much of Apocalypse in the Tropics (which opens theatrically today and will premiere on Netflix Monday, July 14) follows Silas ...
A sobering look at the way the political landscape has shifted in Brazil.
We speak with Petra Costa about her new Netflix documentary, ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics’, a look at the rising ...
The threats posed by religion to liberal democracy are laid out with chilling poeticism by Apocalypse in the Tropics, Petra ...
Petra Costa's sobering new Netflix documentary depicts the hold evangelical Christianity has over far-right politics in Brazil.
Documentarian Petra Costa captures the rise of Evangelical Christianity in Brazil in 'Apocalypse in the Tropics.' ...
EXCLUSIVE: When does a democracy end, and a theocracy begin? That’s the key question in Oscar-nominated filmmaker Petra Costa’s urgent new documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics, set to open in select ...