The Edifício Copan is a gigantic apartment block with 32 floors and 120,000 square metres of living space in the centre of São Paulo. It is a pulsating organism inhabited by 5,000 people. One of them is director and camerawoman Carine Wallauer. She shows us the life of the residents and the work of the countless employees. Inside, the long-serving administrator fights for the election of his successor, while outside, the presidential election campaign between Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro is in full swing.
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Supporting film: HABITAT by Marcel Barelli (Switzerland, 2016, 2 Min.)
A snail - herself a homeowner - explores different types of housing for us. Without words, but with pointed sound effects, a sequence of small images unfolds. Sometimes bizarre, sometimes touching, but always humorous. An animated essay about finding the right home.
DIRECTOR
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Carine Wallauer
Her work is an exploration of the image. Perhaps a struggle to define what an image is beyond illustration, and a search for the image as a carrier, mediator and repository of stories. Carine Wallauer is a photographer, or rather an artist working with the medium of photography. She came to photography after studying journalism. Carine Wallauer is also, and perhaps because of this, a much sought-after cinematographer. Between 2016 and 2024, she worked as a cinematographer on a total of fourteen documentaries and feature films of varying lengths. COPAN (2025) is her first film, which she also directed. Carine Wallauer lives in Sao Paolo.
