Desova - Polizeigewalt und Verschwindenlassen in Rio de Janeiro

In the organizer's words:

Short film and panel discussion on police violence and enforced disappearances in Rio de Janeiro

DESOVA
Director: Laís Dantas, Brazil, OmdU, 29 min

According to the Brazilian Public Security Yearbook, 369,737 cases of disappearances were registered in Brazil between 2017 and 2022, an average of 203 cases per day. DESOVA shows the consequences and traumas in the lives of mothers in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro who have lost their children - mostly young, Afro-Brazilian men - to police violence or violence perpetrated by militias and drug cartels.

Followed by a discussion with Joseane Martins, Renata Aguiar and Gabriel Barbosa (Brazil)

Moderation:

Betânia Ramos Schröder, single mother, sociologist at the UFRPE and University of Hamburg, author, transnational activist and daughter of Oxum, consultant on anti-racism, political participation and social movements in Brazil. She works as a consultant for project monitoring and implementation systems in the field of international cooperation. She is active in various initiatives such as the AfroBras initiative and the association BrasilNilê e.V. and is part of various author projects with feminist, Afro-diasporic women. She is currently working as a consultant on the book project "Invisible voices in diaspora - writings of Afro-descendant Lusophone women in England", an initiative of the AfroIDUK collective.

An event of the Africa Film Festival Cologne, MISEREOR e. V., Allerweltshaus Köln and Cologne-Rio City Partnership Association