In the near future, a small community of the Brazilian hinterland mourns the loss of their matriarch Carmelita. A few days later, people notice that their village, named Bacurau, has vanished from all the maps. Things go from bad to worse when mobile phones stop working, bodies start piling up on the roadsides, and a strange unidentified flying object starts observing the locals... But the villagers are not exactly of the passive type, and will fight back no matter what.

A winner of the last Cannes Film Festival, Bacurau ambitiously combines anthropological realism, dreamlike haze, and a particularly bloody version of the crime thriller. The gorgeous CinemaScope cinematography and the apocalyptic atmosphere make the film look like the mutant child of John Carpenter and Sergio Leone, and explores the reality of Brazil’s outcasts. Existing on the edges of sci-fi, the western and the techno-fable, Bacurau is a cutting critique of modern imperialism and of the current political situation.