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[Image description: actor and director Lazaro Ramos and his wife, actress Tais Araujo, before the screening of their movie 'Executive Order' at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival on December 15 2021.]

In the Brazil of the near future, the government has found what it calls the answer to righting the wrongs of slavery: send blacks back to Africa.      

That dystopian premise is the point of departure for the new film "Executive Order," which is generating controversy in the Brazil of the present over allegations it is being censored by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's government.

The film, the directorial debut from acclaimed actor Lazaro Ramos ("Madame Sata"), has won praise at a series of international festivals, from Moscow to Memphis.

But it does not yet have a release date in Brazil, where there are mounting accusations against the National Cinema Agency (Ancine) of dragging its feet on green-lighting films deemed uncomfortable for the Bolsonaro administration.

"I can't say whether it's bureaucracy or censorship, but both are barriers to culture," Ramos said when the picture screened at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, which wraps up Sunday -- for now, the only time the movie is scheduled to play in Brazil.

Some authorities in its fictional government also bear strong resemblance to real members of the Bolsonaro administration.

In April, Bolsonaro ally Sergio Camargo, head of the Palmares Cultural Foundation, called for a boycott of the film.

"It's pure victim mentality and a defamatory attack on our president," said Camargo, a black Brazilian who has sparked controversy in the past by saying slavery was "beneficial for Afro-descendants."

Ancine says the application is "under review" and that it is following the "standard procedure."

A Agência Nacional do Cinema (ANCINE) anunciou novas medidas rigorosas para combater a pirataria durante a Copa do Mundo, implementando bloqueios a conteúdos ilegais a cada 30 minutos. Com a crescente preocupação em proteger os direitos autorais e a integridade das transmissões, a ANCINE busca coibir o acesso ilegal aos eventos esportivos mais vistos do mundo. Essa decisão, no entanto, desencadeou um intenso debate sobre a liberdade de acesso à informação e a democratização das plataformas de streaming no Brasil.(...)

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https://www.jornalo.com.br/ancine-estabelece-medidas-de-bloqueio-contra-pirataria-na-copa