Eight people resist and survive in a collapsing, violent world. As they embark on a long journey on foot, they make room for imagination and enchantment — like a decaying circus with melancholic yet hopeful performers. And they sing. They sing to ward off pain, to find relief. They sing like Gal Costa on Cantar, her 1974 album released at the height of Brazil’s military dictatorship. They sing for freedom — in times of war, intolerance, and violence, when societies and their States revert to authoritarian politics, silencing and death. They sing even if the circus loses its tent, if the sea floods the cities, if humanity forgets how to love.
Living is dangerous. So is being part of a community where difference and dissonance provoke crises, oppression, and conflict, but also new understandings of what it means to co-exist. What concessions are needed to walk together? — Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti & um cavalo disse mamãe