A university professor travels from São Paulo to the seaside city of Recife during Carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son. He soon finds out he’s been tailed and spied on by neighbors in his new refuge, leaving him no possible escape from the tentacles of corruption.

The most awarded film at Cannes, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s anarchic political thriller stars Wagner Moura in a treacherous cat-and-mouse hunt. Mixing gripping suspense with sly absurdism, this epoch-defining marvel reconstructs memories of the Brazilian military dictatorship in vivid colors.