Friendly Fire

At the start of the seventies Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paulo take part in armed actions against the military dictatorship, and they pay for it with torture and prison. Twenty five years later the four still see one another, but only Miguel is still involved in politics. In a photograph from a meeting in Sao Paulo he recognises the policeman who tortured them and who was responsible for the death of his girlfriend, a man who on paper died years ago. Miguel tells his friends about it on one of their fishing trips. When they track the man down and stand in front of him, the real reckoning starts among themselves, and it becomes clear who chose to forget what. Beto Brant’s seventy six minute Brazilian film was completed in 1998.