Cinema Partenio | at 5.30pm
Directed by:Mariana de Melo
Starring: Gabriela Gundim da Silva, Giovana Gundim da Silva, Raul Sandim
Year: 2024
Country: Brazil
Running Time: 15’
Produced by: Piranha Filmes
Distributed by:Arapuá Filmes
Plot:In the Southeast of Brazil, the inhabitants of Minas Gerais are called ‘mineiros’ or ‘miners’, a profession of those who extract minerals and ores. Through personal narratives, O SILÊNCIO ELEMENTAR casts a gaze on the promised progress of industrial extractivism and the impacts of mining on lives and identities of the mineiros.