Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

“I’ve already lived my death and now all that’s left is making a film about it,” director Héctor Babenco told Barbara Paz when he realized he had little time left. Paz accepted the challenge of fulfilling her late partner’s last wish: to be the main protagonist in a story about his death. Indulging in one of South America’s greatest filmmakers life, where Babenco himself obscures his soul in intimate and painful situations. He expresses anxiety, memories, thoughts and fantasies, where there is a confrontation between his intellectual activity and physical weakness, which was the hallmarks of his career. Paz’s first feature is somehow Babenco’s last work. (Cairo International Film Festival)