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Dear all, sorry to bother with yet another query... I hope this will be even too simple for those of you who work on Latin American cinema, while for me (a Slavist if anything) it... isn't. I am teaching a class on "collectivities" - so far, this has involved mainly Soviet texts and films, but as we proceed on, issues of more immediate relevance started coming up, and I would like to do at least a reasonably good job even there :-). Namely, we started talking of the possible collectives in production and "collectivizations", less in terms of American (middle class) communes than in the Third World today, in Africa on the one hand, and distribution co-ops (such as fair trade cocoa) visibly prevented from extending the collective into production, and on the other hand, regarding Brazil after PT's electoral victory and Lula's presidency. Farming collectives and "multiple forms of property" with socialist if not communist intent- to the extent I know - are a political theme: if one carefully repressed from the eyes of the creditors and creditor politicians. In which context, the question of possible films, both narrative and documentary, comes up, and I am lost: films engaging collective production in the Third WOrld, but also films (if there are any, and accessible) on Brazil of PT's victory or the struggle that have preceded the latter. Any suggestions you may have would be wonderful and more than appreciated. Thanks so much! Sincerely, Simon Krysl