Director Marcos Pimentel offers a detailed look at a taboo subject in Brazil: the relationship between the evangelical faith and drug trafficking in the suburbs and favelas of several Brazilian cities.
This unbridled growth of evangelical churches and their relationships with drug gangs has caused an imbalance of religious forces in their communities, resulting in numerous cases of religious intolerance that impact not only worship practices but also territorial boundaries and the behavior of inhabitants.
As the evangelical neo-charismatic movement gains popularity, the aggressive rhetoric of its supporters is contributing to a growing polarization in society. Violence isn’t a taboo: after all, surely the Bible is above the law?
With exclusive access to the interior of these scenarios, Pimentel makes an x-ray of this phenomenon. Premiered at the prestigious IDFA, Faith and Fury is a study that navigates between the sociological and the intimate, all seen through the poetics that characterize the filmmaker.
