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Your Turn

Name: Your Turn
Director: Eliza Capai
Released: 2019
Duration: 93 min

Representation Score

9.6/10

Excellent

2019

Director

Eliza Capai

Runtime

93 minutes

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Eliza Capai’s documentary excels by decentralizing authority, using student-led footage to prioritize voices often excluded from mainstream discourse. By focusing on the youth-led occupations in São Paulo, the film provides a powerful look at identity-driven mobilization. The work is particularly strong in its depiction of gender and racial diversity. It moves beyond homogeneous presentations to show women and students of color driving the political momentum against systemic oppression. While the film is a profound critique of institutional power, it lacks specific thematic focus on disability or dedicated LGBTQ+ arcs. It captures these identities as part of a broader social fabric rather than through specialized lenses.

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Category Breakdown

Does Your Turn have LGBTQ+ representation?

Good

The film captures organic social movements that include diverse gender expressions. While the focus remains on political occupations, the many-voiced protests provide a platform for queer perspectives within the collective struggle.

How does Your Turn portray gender?

Excellent

The documentary disrupts traditional hierarchies by centering young women as organizers and strategic leaders. It highlights women's ability to drive the story, challenging patriarchal structures of political mobilization and leadership.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Your Turn?

Excellent

The footage showcases a multi-ethnic coalition of students, reflecting Brazil's racial reality. It frames racial identity as a core component of the struggle against systemic economic crises.

How does Your Turn represent religion and culture?

Excellent

The film serves as a critique of state institutions and traditional nationalism. It celebrates anti-establishment sentiment and the necessity of rebellion against a corrupt status quo.

Does Your Turn include disability representation?

Fair

There is limited evidence of intentional centering of neurodivergent or physically disabled activists. The movement's inclusive nature suggests social accessibility, but disability is not a primary thematic pillar.

Present on Screen

Centers the role of young women as strategic leaders and organizers.
Highlights the multi-ethnic demographic and racial diversity of Brazil.
Prioritizes grassroots, many-voiced perspectives through participatory filmmaking.
Provides a profound critique of traditional state institutions and nationalist structures.

Limited or Absent

Limited focus on the experiences of neurodivergent or physically disabled activists.
LGBTQ+ identities are present within the movement but lack dedicated thematic arcs.

Official Synopsis

When numerous schools in São Paulo were slated to be closed in 2015 as a result of the worsening socio-political crisis, students occupied more than a thousand public buildings in an unprecedented act of self-empowerment. Filmmaker Eliza Capai shows the development of the many-voiced protests, using news excerpts, self-conducted interviews and recordings made with activists’ own cell phone cameras. From the first demonstrations in 2013 and continuing all the way to the election of the extreme right-wing presidential Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, Capai’s highly political work becomes more and more relevant with each passing day.

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