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Daughters of Chiquita

Country: Brazil, Language: Portuguese, 52 mins

Original Title

As Filhas da Chiquita
  • Director: Priscilla Brasil
  • Writer: Priscilla Brasil; Vladimir Cunha
  • Producer: Graça Brasil

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On the second Sunday of October, over two million Catholics descend on Belem for the procession of Our Lady of Nazareth. Following the procession, tens of thousands of queers, drag queens and transsexuals camp it up at Chiquita's Party in celebration of gay pride. Attacked by other religious groups since 2004, Chiquita's Party struggles to stay alive and crown their Chiquita drag superstar at each year's festivities. A colourful look at an undocumented queer movement, it also explores the complex relationship between religion and homosexuality in contemporary Brazil. The film deservedly won awards at MIX Brazil 2006.


Há 28 anos, no segundo domingo de outubro, a bicentenária procissão do Círio de Nazaré - maior romaria católica do Brasil e uma das maiores do mundo - é obrigada a conviver com a Festa da Chiquita, o mais tradicional encontro gay da Amazônia que, contra tudo e contra todos, ocorre no mesmo dia, na mesma hora e na mesma rua. São dois milhões de católicos fervorosos de um lado e alguns milhares de homossexuais do outro. Em 2004, o IPHAN incluiu a Festa da Chiquita no processo de tombamento do Círio como patrimônio imaterial da humanidade, dando início a uma grande polêmica: afinal, a festa da Chiquita faz parte do Círio?


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