The City of the Future

Good morning, teacher.

Sobradinho, Bahia, represents an important milestone in the regeneration of the Northeast.

A huge dam is being constructed that will leave seven municipalities under water.

And this single act will contribute more than anything else...

...to regulating the Sao Francisco River.

Relocating the population is a very thorough and considered process.

Having received fair compensation through the social services,

those displaced will find new homes built especially for them.

By leaving their old homes they will benefit hundreds of municipalities

in states throughout Brazil.

It's time to create a new landscape for the latest generation to inhabit the Sao Francisco river.

It's time to show a way forward to those who experienced first hand...

...the suffering caused by the long droughts.

"That was when I realized we had been tricked.

There was no electricity and the water wasn't fit to drink.

The house was very small. We had lost all of our land.

My brothers and sisters gave up hope and left.

I lost track of them and never saw them again."

Rebecca, tell me: who are you?

Who is your character?

I am a settler. My family recently arrived here in Serra do Ramalho.

Are you happy?

No.

Close your eyes.

Think of a time when somebody deceived you.

Someone promised you something very important, very precious to you, Rebecca.

You trusted them, but they let you down.

Bring that feeling to the text.

THE CITY OF THE FUTURE

I showed that film I told you about.

It was great showing how people arrived here in Serra...

Took me 3 years to get this material from the Hydro-Electric Company.

Took ages.

You never wanted to watch it, right?

What's in the past is in the past.

Pretty soon no one will remember this story.

I wish I had known you at that time, mom.

Young, full of dreams...

You have such a pretty smile, mom.

How about you and Vanessa?

You know I liked her better than anyone?

When I saw Vanessa it was like I had something alive inside of me.

I felt it under my skin...

I'm really restless.

I want everything all at once.

I like that about you.

You're intense too.

Am I? - I like that.

They say it's over five thousand years old, but they don't know for sure.

I can't work out any of it.

Looks like it’s moving, don't you think?

Remember the first time we came here?

You're not gonna let this confuse things, are you?

No, I'm not.

Let's get married?

Are you crazy?

I'm serious. Let’s get married?

You're not afraid?

Me, no. How about you?

Yeah, I am.

Entire families from five municipalities were forcibly relocated

to allow for the construction of the Sobradinho Dam.

Understandably, these families protested. Nobody likes leaving their own land,

especially families, over twenty thousand of them.

And they were dumped here, in the woodland.

They were deceived into thinking they would be relocated to the Sao Francisco River

since they were riverside people and had always lived there.

But in reality they were dumped here, over 20 km from the Sao Francisco river.

No access to health care, no technical help,

and especially no social support.

And there was a huge outcry, a great deal of heartache,

with many families returning to where they had originally come from.

One, two, three, four, five, six.

Mark it with the right foot. One, two, three, four.

Take your hat off, girls. Back, turn forward.

Got it? Let’s go?

Everybody to their positions! Come on, Baneza.

I'm hitting play.

Two... Three...

One, two, three...

One, two, three!

Remember when you used to date Manu?

Why do you bring that up now?

Dunno... She was really pretty.

Light-skinned girl, like, cute.

I can’t understand why you broke up with her.

Just didn't work out.

What do you mean it didn't work out? A girl like that?

You were crazy about her, man.

In love, head over heels.

With a girl like that, who wouldn't be?

What about grandma’s surgery, mom? Have they scheduled it?

Yes.

Is it serious?

No, it's not.

What's there to eat?

You want something? I’ll heat it up.

You don't need to do that, I'm starving.

"...and to think that Claudia did it on her own!..." "...alright, pale-face, come towards me please..."

"...go get it..."

"...went to the bathroom and came back wearing high heels

with skirts so short that can’t even be called skirts, they're more like belts.

Yeah, you know? It’s not respectful..."

Where are you going?

To meet some friends.

Are you going to meet Gilmar?

Yes.

You know that this has to end sometime, right?

"How can I forget the kiss you gave me"

"Don't know if I'm supposed to forget or remember"

"And a piece of you stayed with me"

"And now I want to see you, to surrender"

"How I want once more your lips to meet"

"The way you do it is so sweet"

"That's why I want your hands on me"

"How I want the scent of love that's coming"

"Bringing your body just to me"

"How I want once more your lips to meet"

"The way you do it is so sweet"

"That's why I want your hands on me"

"How I want the scent of love that's coming"

"Bringing your body just to me"

Are you from Havana? - I am from Santiago, Cuba.

It is the... the second city of the country.

Do you miss your family?

Very much. My family is everything to me.

Let’s try to find the fetus' heartbeat.

Is that the baby's heartbeat?

No, this is still yours.

We’re still looking for the baby's, okay?

OK... - Just relax.

This is the baby's heartbeat.

It's alive! - Yes!

I need to tell you something.

Does it have to be now? I've missed you.

It has to be now.

Milla is pregnant.

Who's the father?

New baby in the family?

HAPPY Supermarket

There it is.

But can you make anything out from this?

Yes, you can. Now do you see it?

Now I do. But it’s so tiny!

Look, here’s the head, do you see?

The spine being formed... Little feet, hands...

and it’s 16 millimeters.

16 millimeters or centimeters? - Really it's millimeters.

It’s tiny, the size of a bean. Look, the image is zoomed in.

And these colored dots, what are they? - Blood circulation.

Now they're going to measure the heart. You can hear the heartbeat.

That’s its heart? It sounds like a train! It sounds like a whole railway in there!

Is that it? - Yeah.

Congratulations! That's wonderful! Let me give you a hug!

Thanks!

Pretty soon you'll have a nephew...

This is the map of Bahia. Here's the capital, Salvador.

This is the North, and here are the four towns that were flooded...

And the queer, right, was on the plane, dying for a smoke.

And there's this old man, freezing his ass off.

And a guy would walk by, and the queer:

"Hey man, give me a cigarette..."

And the old man there, freezing and stuff...

and the queer always walking by, "Hey man, give me a cigarette"

"Hey, you, give me a cigarette..."

And the old man there freezing.

And then the man lost it with the queer, grabbed him, took him to a room,

and bam, bam, fucked him in the arse.

Then he came back... - Mike, change places.

No, I’ll be quiet now.

Change places, you're disturbing me. - No, I’ve finished, I’ll be quiet.

You'll be quiet somewhere else, Mike.

Well, everyone, as we were saying...

Is this child mine too?

It’s mine, Gilmar's and yours.

Let’s make a toast? To a beautiful child on its way

and to these three crazies who are going to blow people’s minds in Serra do Ramalho!

I'm off. God bless you, mother.

So you aren't speaking to me either?

You went too far, Milla.

It’s my life. It’s nobody else's business.

What's that supposed to mean, Milla? What the hell?

Goddammit, you with Gilmar and Igor. Everyone's talking about our family.

You care too much about what other people think.

Of course I do.

Remember when you let your hair grow? Everybody had something to say about it.