Notes on an exile
The footage of an encounter with a Brazilian-Palestinian family in the West Bank in 2018 is revisited after October 7, 2023. What was meant to be a film about the possibilities of coexistence in an occupied land turns into a brutal reflection on colonization, apartheid, genocide, and the recent proliferation of war imagery, produced by the very victims of a massacre that repeats itself over time.
Gustavo Castro is a director, director of photography, drone operator, and editor. He has been working as a popular educator for 15 years and has produced over 30 documentaries on social, political, environmental, and cultural issues in several countries in South America, the Amazon, and the Middle East. He directed and filmed the documentary short “A Fortaleza” (2021) and the documentary web series “Afegãos no Brasil” (2022), “Vozes e Olhares” (2022), “Negritude Branquitude – Novos Olhares” (2018), and “Cidade ao Redor: Retratos Da Luta Por Moradia Em Curitiba” (2017). He is the director of photography for the documentaries “Diz aí Fronteiras” (2017), “Banco Tukano” (2012), and “Vozes do Rio Negro” (2011), as well as the music videos “Guartelá” (2022) and “Raiz” (2018) by Grupo Fato, “Nexo” and “Vênuz com Jasmim” by Leo Fressato (2020), and “Eu Ué” by Estrela Leminski and Téo Ruiz (2017). His latest works as a director of photography are the documentary feature films “A Propósito de Harry” and “Itapoá – Tempo Presente.” As director and director of photography, he will release in 2025 his first documentary feature film “Notes on an Exile,” an essay film that addresses the Palestinian issue.
