BETWEEN INDEPENDENCY AND DEATH Explores how Brazil’s national myths are revived to serve right-wing power. Centered on Dom Pedro I — the Portuguese prince who declared Brazil’s “independence” — the film reveals how his ghost returns whenever authority seeks legitimacy. His embalmed body’s 1972 journey from Portugal to Brazil becomes a metaphor for colonial continuity: even the dead are used to rule the living. Between independence and death, the nation remains trapped in a fevered loop of memory and control.