On Bodies
Dirección Emerson Ramos;
Brazil · 2025 · 16 min · Homosexuality; Social issues; Queer Cinema; Violence;
Película presentada al RTV International Film Festival 2026Sinopsis
Between 2010 and 2011, travestis were murdered in Patos, Paraíba. The documentary reconstructs the crimes, the investigation and the trial of a case kept in local media because the victims were travestis.
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BETWEEN 2010 AND 2011, a series of murders targeting travestis occurred in the city of Patos, in the hinterlands of Paraíba, Brazil. The investigations identified a well-known military police officer from the region as the perpetrator. A decisive breakthrough came when a victim survived by pretending to be dead. Sobre Corpos is a short documentary film that portrays the crimes, the investigation, and the trial of a case that should have made national headlines—but remained confined to local media simply because the victims were travestis. This is a complex and gripping story that lays bare the banality of violence driven by transphobic hatred.
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RTV International Film Festival — Inaugural Online Edition · 2026