How Good to See You Alive

Four years after the 1964 coup toppled Brazil’s government, civil liberties were suspended and torture became a systematic practice. Blending fiction with documentary, this powerful film offers a searing record of personal memory, political repression, and the will to survive. It features interviews with eight women who were political prisoners under the military dictatorship, framed by the fantasies and imaginings of an anonymous character portrayed by Irene Ravache.