September 2, 2019 (2019-09-02) (Venice Film Festival)
Country
Brazil
Language
Portuguese
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (
Brazilian Portuguese: Babenco: Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer Parou, literally "Someone has to listen to the heart and say it stopped") is a 2019 Brazilian
documentary film directed by
Bárbara Paz. The film premiered at the 2019
Venice Film Festival, where it won Best Documentary on Cinema.[1][2][3] It focuses on the last years of life of filmmaker
Hector Babenco, who died in 2016, victimized by a cancer. It was selected as the Brazilian entry for the
Best International Feature Film at the
93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[4]