Released 2007, International Festivals 2008
Mandala Bala is about the ubiquity of kidnapping and corruption in Brazil. It profiles such subjects as a businessman who bullet-proofs cars, a plastic surgeon who reconstructs the ears of kidnap victims, former Governor and Senator Jáder Barbalho, a powerful and corrupt politician, and a frog farm owner whose business is a money laundering front.
[larger story: the economics of kidnapping]
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