Cracolândia (2020)

• 56%
• 2020
• Documentary
• Edu Felistoque

The phenomenon of open-air drug use is becoming a worldwide epidemic and is one of the most complex urban challenges of modern life. Seen through different realities, from those who study it, those who try to contain it and those who live in it, the feature film documentary "Crackland" directed by Edu Felistoque opens a debate about the largest and most impactful scene of crack usage in the world: the "Crackland" of the city of São Paulo. The debate includes leaders, specialists, doctors, health workers, social services agents, police officers, judges, representatives of NGOs, medical centers and support centers, drug addicts and other professionals from various fields of activity related to the search for solution of the problem in Brazil and other countries. Through these objects the film analyzes the causes of this evil and its progression, the combat tactics already carried out in São Paulo, opening a parallel with the strategies used in other countries, seeking to identify which are the real "stones" that hinder the definitive solution for the problem.