Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2019 film directed by Bárbara Paz
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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (Brazilian Portuguese: Babenco – Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer: Parou, literally "Someone has to listen to the heart and say it stopped") is a 2019 Brazilian documentary film directed by Bárbara Paz. The film premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, where it won Best Documentary on Cinema.[1][2][3] It focuses on the last years filmmaker Hector Babenco's life, who died in 2016 of cancer. It was selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[4]
- Maria Camargo
- Bárbara Paz
- Myra Babenco
- Bárbara Paz
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| Country | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese |
Interviews
- Hector Babenco
- Regina Braga
- Willem Dafoe
- Paulo José
- Xuxa Lopes
- Selton Mello
- Fernanda Montenegro
- Bárbara Paz
- Carmo Sodré
- Fernanda Torres
- Dráuzio Varella
Reception
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 5 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.5/10.[5]
Awards and nominations
- WINNER: Venice Film Festival Best Documentary on Cinema (Italia) 2019 [6]
- WINNER: Bisato D'oro Independent Critic Award of Venice Film Festival (Italia) 2019 [7]
- WINNER: MIFF 2020 Best Documentary (India) 2020 [8]
- WINNER: FICVIÑA 2020 Best Latin American Documentary Feature Film (Chile) 2020 [9]
- SPECIAL MENTION: IDF 2020 4th West Lake International Documentary Festival (China) 2020 [10]
- WINNER: GZDOC 2020 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival (China) 2020 [11]
- NOMINADA: Mejor película iberoamericana en la 63° edición de los Premios Ariel entregada por la Academia Méxicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas
