Oliver Stone's Lula, in a special screening at Cannes 2024

After 2003's Comandante about Fidel Castro (followed by two other documentaries on the same subject in 2004 and 2012) and 2014's My Friend Hugo about former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, Oliver Stone once again turns his attention to aLatin American leader: the President of the Republic of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, also known as Lula, who has been back at the helm of the country since last year, after two years in prison for corruption and money laundering.

Lula is the name of the new documentary about to be unveiled in a special screening at the Cannes Film Festival 2024, which takes place on the Croisette from May 14 to 25. To film this documentary, Oliver Stone traveled around Brazil with Lula.

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"The documentary is about the prosecution, what happened when they put this president of a prosperous country in jail for corruption, which is not really unusual in these countries," Oliver Stone told AFP during a visit to Paris in March.

With unprecedented access to Lula and his closest advisors, Oliver Stone sheds new light on the charismatic politician in a series of unfiltered interviews and reveals the inside story of Operation "Lava Jato" with the hacker and journalist from the "Snowden Files" whose reporting led to Lula's release.

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