Behave
By Maria Augusta Ramos
Country: Brazil
Language: Portuguese
Original title: Juizo
Production year: 2007
Runtime: 01h30
Production company: Diler & Associados
Juizo follows the process of minors who have fallen into the hands of the Brazilian legal system. Boys and girls from underprivileged backgrounds faced with crime, ruling, and sentences handed down for theft, drug trafficking, and even murder. Due to legal constraints about revealing the true indentity of the minors charged, the accused adolescents were substituted with young people chosen for having themselves lived in similar social conditions, athough innocent of any actual crime.
Locarno 2007 – Filmmakers of the Present Competition
Viennale 2007 – OmeU
Leipzig Dok 2007 – Fipresci Award
Rotterdam 2008 – Time & Tide
Lisboa 2008 – IndiLisboa
Prague 2008 – One World Human Rights Documentary Film Festival – Best film
Warsaw 2008 – Watch Docs. Human Rights in Film International Film Festival – Best film
