With Apocalypse, the filmmaker illustrates the link between the far right and the Christian fundamentalist movement in Brazil ...

Costa not only dug into the behavior and power of the religious right in Brazil but lost sleep poring over apocalyptic texts ...

Petra Costa's sobering documentary examines the rise of right-wing evangelical Christianity in Brazilian politics ...

Netflix released the documentary ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics,’ which seeks to understand how the far right mobilizes faith for ...

The earliest footage for Apocalypse in the Tropics was captured inside the Chamber of Deputies in Brasília. A member of Brazil’s Congress, Cabo Daciolo, approached the filmmaker, handed her a Bible, ...

The director Petra Costa examines a rightward shift in her country by zeroing in on the rise of a televangelist.

A sobering look at the way the political landscape has shifted in Brazil.

Much of Apocalypse in the Tropics (which opens theatrically today and will premiere on Netflix Monday, July 14) follows Silas ...

In the opening shot of Apocalypse in the Tropics, the camera pans across a cracked canvas on which a group of nude figures, all with blurred expressions, seek shelter inside the protective cocoon of a ...

EXCLUSIVE: When does a democracy end, and a theocracy begin? That’s the key question in Oscar-nominated filmmaker Petra Costa’s urgent new documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics, set to open in select ...

Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa’s latest documentary, Apocalypse in the Tropics, explores the impact of evangelical ...

We speak with Petra Costa about her new Netflix documentary, ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics’, a look at the rising ...