Waiting for the Carnival

""I'm Saving Up for When Carnival Comes" tells, in an empathetic and engaging way, the stories of the workers of the small jeans factories in Toritama, in the hinterland of Pernambuco, who have set aside traditional family farming and livestock. Owners of their own means of production, they work for hours and hours (almost) all year round to produce 20 million jeans - and to give themselves the luxury of, in February, stopping work to enjoy the carnival break on the coast. Those who can't save enough money find themselves selling the TV and even the refrigerator to pay for the trip. In this way, we have a report on modern capitalism, the life of these people and Brazilian popular culture. The documentary is directed by the also Pernambucan Marcelo Gomes ("Cinema, Aspirin and Vultures"), who uses his affective relationship with the region as a starting point for a look that, at the same time, registers and intervenes in that reality that is on the screen."