Honestino

Honestino

1h25min
NR
2025Drama

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A student leader fights against a military dictatorship, based on true events.

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A fusion of documentary and fiction, the film tells the story of Honestino Guimarães, a student leader of the '68 generation, president of the UNE (National University of Bahia), and a student at UnB. Arrested five times for his activism, Honestino was kidnapped in 1973 at the age of 26 and is one of the hundreds of people who disappeared during the military dictatorship. Based on letters, poems, and archival footage, dozens of testimonies from family, friends, and activists, and scenes performed by Bruno Gagliasso.