Gera mergaitė

Age limit: N-13. 7-12 years old children must be accompanied by an adult.
Genre: Documentary
Year of release: 2024
Duration: 93 min.
Film language: Portuguese
Subtitle language: Lithuanian

Action documentary about Brazilians dedicated to balloons. This is an underground full of excitement and color. Will you catch the balloon or will the police catch you? The film takes you deep into the Brazilian favelas, into the underground baloeira community. They are tattooed, muscular men who adore balloons. The men spend years gluing colored scraps of paper into balloons the size of apartment buildings. These sky-coloring balloons are banned in the country. While the baloeira groups compete with each other to create the biggest and most impressive balloon, the police are on their trail and chasing them like the biggest criminals. Having earned the trust of the balloon gangs, the film's director creates a tense and adrenaline-filled tale of brotherhood on the fringes of society. Here, surrounded by balloons, anyone can become king for a day. Languages: Portuguese Subtitles: Lithuanian SKN, English Director: Sissel Morell Dargis Operators: Sissel Morell Dargis, Elisa Barbosa Riva Editing: Biel Andres, Isabel Monteiro de Castro, Rikke Selin Als, Steen Johannesen Producers: Marie Schmidt Olesen, Jesper Jack Translator: Eglė Maceinaitė - Intimate and explosive look into the secret society of giant hot air balloon makers in Brazil's favelas, who risk everything to create and fly their illegal masterpieces. In the heart of Brazil's favelas, filmmaker Sissel Morell Dargis gains unprecedented access to the hidden world of the 'balloon mafia'. For baloeiros in Rio and Sao Paolo, hot air balloon construction, flying and chasing is a treasured and competitive art form – as well as central to their sense of community and cultural heritage since colonial times. Now, authorities have made their art illegal, ranking them just below drug cartels in the law, and driving them underground. With police and bounty hunters hot on their heels, Dargis embarks on a wild ride to witness the extreme obsession and sacrifice required to build these spectacular balloons that reach over 70 meters high and that require over 100 people to launch into the sky.
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