Balomania

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Balomania

Balomania
Sissel Morell Dargis
Doc Alliance Award
Documentary Film
Denmark,
Spain
2024
93 minutes
Portuguese (Brazil),
English
Subtitles: 
English
No Premiere

A huge, glowing structure bearing the face of Rocky Balboa drifts through the night, mysterious and seemingly from out of this world. Its actual size is revealed only gradually. Sissel Morell Dargis tells the incredible story of the “baloeiros”, an underground culture in the heart of Brazil’s favelas. These loosely-knitted groups are dedicated to building, launching and chasing hot air balloons. This does not sound very spectacular? Anyone who sees the giant objects made of fine tissue paper, which often depict popular figures like Karate Kid or Superman, will be amazed! Such a balloon launch, sometimes preceded by years of welding and gluing in secret workshops, is not just a complex logistical endeavour. It is dangerous, too, for the “baloeiros” whose passion does not earn them one centavo, are prosecuted as a criminal organisation.
It takes a while for Morell Dargis to win the trust of this secret community. The balloons also serve her as a metaphor for a country that finds itself in a politically fragile and deadlocked situation in which those who struggle at the margins of society can barely assert their rights. An intimate, multilayered and action-packed film that turns conventional notions of life in the favelas upside down.


Lina Dinkla

Photosensitivity warning: Contains flashes of light that may trigger seizures for people with visual sensitivities.

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29.10.
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01.11.
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Director
Sissel Morell Dargis
Cinematographer
Sissel Morell Dargis, Elisa Barbosa Riva
Editor
Biel Andrés, Rikke Selin Als, Isabela Monteiro de Castro, Steen Johannessen, Sissel Morell Dargis
Producer
Jesper Jack, Marie Schmidt Olesen, Marieke vanden Bersselaar, Carles Brugueras, Marie Schmidt Olesen, Jesper Jack
Sound Design
Carlos E. Garcia
Score
Aquiles Ghirelli, O Novíssimo Edgar

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