Leandro is a young man frustrated by his job. His master’s thesis is on the military dictatorship in Brazil. That takes him into a search for recently deceased artist Jairo Mendes’ controversial film The Beheading Game, which was censored by Brazilian censors in 1973.
Direction
Bianchi's clinical gaze makes bureaucracy feel genuinely menacing.
Writing
Thesis-as-narrative structure that actually interrogates itself.
Director
Sérgio Bianchi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brazil's military dictatorship (1964-1985) destroyed an estimated 70% of films produced during its harshest period; this fictional 'lost film' channels real absences.
Bianchi deliberately shot in Academy ratio to evoke period newsreels, then gradually widens the frame as Leandro uncovers more—subtle visual lie about 'opening up' history.
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