Maria Emília Brederode Santos

“Nothing stopped them. In the greatest adversities, in the most difficult situations", Women of the Revolution, by Raquel Freire

In a time of fierce competition for historical memory, in which the most extreme forces on the right try to rewrite what fascism was, the film Women of the Revolution, by Raquel Freire, is a moment of truth, a point of order at the table. Who tells our story? Who guesses the joys and the sufferings, the griefs, and the charms? Who knows what was in the heart of a child who was killed along with their family in Gaza? Who hears the birds in the morning feeling what overflows the life that fits us?