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Estou Me Guardando Para Quando O Carnaval Chegar – Waiting for the Carnival

In Toritama in northeastern Brazil, around 20 million jeans are produced and processed every year. In addition to the large textile factories, numerous private workshops were founded in garages and backyards, in which the inhabitants of the city seemingly work independently and can divide the workload themselves.

Marcelo Gomez’s documentary gives an insight into a city where the majority of the inhabitants live from the production of jeans and where the sewing machines do not stand still. – Excluded from the Carnival season. Then Toritama turns into a ghost town all traveling to the coast to celebrate. To afford the trip to the coast, some sell their belongings such as refrigerators and televisions.

The documentation was published in 2019 at Berlinale Shown:

Currently, the documentary is not available for streaming in Germany, but this changes occasionally. Information can be found in Google Search or on the popular streaming portals.

Duration: 89 minutes
Reference: Info about the film