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Costa not only dug into the behavior and power of the religious right in Brazil but lost sleep poring over apocalyptic texts ...
When I watched Petra Costa’s Oscar-nominated 2019 documentary The Edge of Democracy, it was impossible not to be struck by ...
Much of Apocalypse in the Tropics (which opens theatrically today and will premiere on Netflix Monday, July 14) follows Silas ...
Netflix released the documentary ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics,’ which seeks to understand how the far right mobilizes faith for political interest.
The director Petra Costa examines a rightward shift in her country by zeroing in on the rise of a televangelist.
A sobering look at the way the political landscape has shifted in Brazil.
We continue our conversation with Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa about her new Netflix documentary, Apocalypse in the ...
The threats posed by religion to liberal democracy are laid out with chilling poeticism by Apocalypse in the Tropics, Petra ...
We speak with Petra Costa about her new Netflix documentary, ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics’, a look at the rising ...
"Apocalypse in the Tropics": Documentary. Directed by Petra Costa. (PG-13. 110 minutes.) Opens Friday, July 11, at Landmark's ...
EXCLUSIVE: When does a democracy end, and a theocracy begin? That’s the key question in Oscar-nominated filmmaker Petra Costa’s urgent new documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics, set to open in select ...
Petra Costa's sobering new Netflix documentary depicts the hold evangelical Christianity has over far-right politics in Brazil.