Turning Wind

Turning Wind is shot in the state of Bahia. When a man returns to his home, a fishing village, he finds its community oppressed by religious mysticism. Glauber Rocha’s first full-length feature is a deep reflection on the way religion can repress the political conscience and interfere in human relations. Turning Wind is a prophetic film in Glauber Rocha’s career, showing the power of cinema as an instrument of analysis and criticism of societies’ structures of power and its damaging impact on human needs.