Aug 24, 2023
93 min
Full-HD

Pictures of Ghosts (2023)

Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.

Category

Documentary

Country

Brazil

Companies

Vitrine Filmes CinemaScópio

Kleber Mendonça Filho

Self / Narrator

Rubens Santos

Driver

Sônia Braga

Self (archive footage)

Maeve Jinkings

Self (archive footage)

Lucrecia Martel

Self

Clara Pinheiro de Oliveira

Self

Severino Cavalcanti

Self (archive footage)

Nilo Coelho

Self - Governador de Pernambuco (archive footage)

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