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A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history Combining unprecedented access to leaders past and present, including Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, with accounts of her own familys complex past, filmmaker Petra Costa ELENA witnesses their rise and fall and the tragically polariz

Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship She also leaves Petra

Focuses on how the evangelical movement paved the way for the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro and poses the threat of a national theocracy

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history Combining unprecedented access to leaders past and present, including Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, with accounts of her own familys complex past, filmmaker Petra Costa ELENA witnesses their rise and fall and the tragically polariz