BLINDNESS is a feature film, based on the romance “Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira” (Blindness), by José Saramago, Literature Nobel Prize winner.

The feature film is the first international co-production of Brazilian film industry, between Brazil (O2 Filmes), Canada (Rhombus Media) and Japan (Bee Vine Pictures).

BLINDNESS was shot in Brazil, Uruguay and Canada. Directed by Fernando Meirelles with photography by César Charlone, who have been working together since the success of “Cidade de Deus” (City of God) and “O Jardineiro Fiel” (The Constant Gardener).

SUMMARY

BLINDNESS narrates the story of a sudden and devastating epidemic, white blindness, which destroys society, placing the characters and spectators of this film, face to face with the most basic values of our civilization. In the struggle for survival, blindness will make us see humanity’s essence.

The intention is to reveal, through society’s total chaos and decay, what human beings are able to loose and win with the civilization’s fall experience. As characters submerge into the crisis caused by the white blindness epidemic they will have to face up to the different phases of human nature: struggles for power, famine, which can cause killing or dying, and unbridled sexuality. However, blindness will also make them rescue, in their struggle for survival, solidarity, humanity and dignity, above all.

It is an allegory of our civilization or about humanity itself. BLINDNESS it´s a fiction feature film that transcends boundaries. It´s a drama with such potential that disrupt and touches people from all over the world.