A twenty-year-old Brazilian man flees his country by hiding in the luggage hold of a plane where he freezes to death. His last memory is interwoven with the diary notes of a traveller through Northern Brazil.
- Director
- Karim Aïnouz
- Country of production
- Brazil
- Year
- 1994
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 1996
- Length
- 10'
- Medium
- 16mm
- International title
- Part 1 - Irreversible metabolic shock
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
- Producers
- Banff Centre for the Arts, Roberto Marwues
- Sales
- Karim Aïnouz, American Centre Paris
- Screenplay
- Karim Aïnouz
- Editor
- Karim Aïnouz