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Cold Tropics
Films by Kleber Mendonça Filho
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Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho | 25 mins | 2009
A playful but pointed work of faux-reportage about Recife, in Brazil’s northeast, in which climate change produces an absurdist scenario: locals and tourists alike struggle to adapt when chilly weather, rain, and even penguins descend upon Mendonça Filho’s home, “the city that stopped being tropical.”
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