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Opening Ceremony

When does a democracy end, and a theocracy begins? Petra Costa investigates the increasingly powerful grip that faith leaders hold over politics in Brazil. She gains access to the country’s top political leaders, including President Lula and former President Bolsonaro, as well as to Brazil’s most famous televangelist, weaving together past and present and immersing us in the contradictory realities of a young democracy that is hanging on by a thread - and, in so doing, holds up a mirror to the rest of the world.

With the presence of the director