While We Are Here

9.5 10
2019
78min

English French Portuguese Arabic

English Catalan

Country: Brazil

Original Title: Enquanto estamos aqui (2019)

This gem from the Rotterdam Film Festival is a chronicle-essay ... or rather a kind of diary, as philosophical as it is poetic, about the life of a Lebanese woman and a Brazilian man, both migrants, in New York.

English French Portuguese Arabic
English Catalan
Country: Brazil
Original Title: Enquanto estamos aqui (2019)

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While We Are Here. Poetic postcards of two Brazilians in New York

Lamis and Wilson are migrants in New York. She’s a Lebanese that just arrived, and he’s a Brazilian that has lived there illegally for 10 years.

An hybrid narrative constructed with a poetic approach; a travel diary that becomes a chronic and takes us into the essence of human micro-politics in times of globalization: an uncertain kingdom of desire, hope and fears.